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Show Rhine Germans j ! ! Hate the French1 1 i .. i 'i ' ' I reprisals, in si!iic rases Uie ditiictilty j is avoided by liie a'-cumpunying swain j udoptiug civilian clothes, which seems i to lie ati-d nctu ry ail around. In the wine cellars of tin." iiiisifasl-ioimble iiiisifasl-ioimble restaurants of I Miesseldorf there is a corner ;lltl "liie occupa- lion coiner." There are deposited all j the bottles of wiles tiiat Lave been refused by the German customers as bavin:; soared, to defective corks. V.'bon a party of French o:ii- j cers put in an appearance they are! always sorv, d with two or three bottles bot-tles of the special wine, which they promptly reject, its a I'rciic1. man's ; taste for wine is infallible, but by the time a real "uml bottle of wine is readied "the French cannot taste the good of it," as one headwaiter put il. i Population in Recently Occupied I Section on Right Dank Are Sullen and Aloof. j WGfi'T U'CER STAND UOAOE 1 Serve Sour Wine to Soldiers in the ; Restaurants Women Seen With j Uniformed Men Are Marked I for Reprisals. DuesseVioi f, GVrmany. The ariti-occupnliou ariti-occupnliou sentiment is much stronger In Ibiesst Idorf, Kuhrort and Duisburg, the cities of lihenish Prussia recently occupied by the French, than in Mqy-eiice, Mqy-eiice, Cob'eit. and Cologne, which also have been under foreign occupation for more than two years by the French. Americans and Pritish. As one crosses from the left bank of the It li : i ie and enters recently occupied oc-cupied territory the mood of the population pop-ulation becomes more sullen, their behavior be-havior more aloof and their hatred much more pronounced. More Like Military Rule. The reason may be that the French tire occupying that part of the right bank of the Itliine that they hold near the Kuhr in real military fashion and ll'.e occupalion is much more severe than that on the left bank. The hatred of the population is directed di-rected more especially against the j French, and children are being brought up in a constant terror ai d undisguised undis-guised scorn of the occupying forces, which gives but little promise that the real brotherly lovo betwceif French ttnd Germans will be achieved with the coming generation. The absolute rofusal to spank French, even by persons well acquainted acquaint-ed with the language, is one of the most common ways in which the Germans Ger-mans show their dislike of the French military men. The correspondent walked Into a cigar store the oilier day-while a French ollicer was attempting to make the woman in charge understand the brand of cigarettes he wanted. She seemed absolutely at a loss to understand under-stand him. The correspondent translated trans-lated the ollicer's request in English. After the ollicer had departed she told the correspondent in purest French: "I understood him the first time, but I would not give him the fitis-faction." fitis-faction." "Boycotted" tw -Women. Few women in Duesseldorf, Iiulirort or Duisburg vvt'J be seeu in the company com-pany of a uniformed French soldier or ollicer in the streets. The few who transgress the unwritten law are promptly catalogued at the German city headquarters, and are marked for |