Show REAL OF LORRAINE ALSACE I All Signs Written in French Frencl Must Be Changed to German Gernian Words Republican Cable Strasbourg bourg July Jub IS One One of or the steps In the of oC Alsace Alsace- Lorraine has been that o of doing doln- away with all signs written n In Sn French an and making maILing the people put up sl signs ns drawn up In German unless permission has been obtained to us i French words Of or course coulse this enactment has lias led to a I great deal of trouble ant and friction between between be be- tween th the tho trading classes and tho the police I A A 4 few da days g ago a German policeman policeman police police- man In a a. moment foment of oC unwonted alertness alert alert- ne ness espied the word Coiffeur on a blind bUnd in a t hairdressers hairdresser's shop The Tue DO- DO hurried off to see whether hether the the hairdresser had obtained the necessary sar sary permission to use the word Coif Col cur and he found he had not done so At once ho lie sought the hairdresser who confessed that he had used the blind for 32 years and concluded that no permission Was wn nece necessary sary Then the chief of oC the police was wa summoned lie He Inspected the blind and edged ed that the Inscription really ha had an ancient look in the end he ordered the offending blind to be destroyed Still SUIl by y a supreme effort cHort of large large- e- e mindedness the chief Of or the police to allow tho the hairdresser n Cl dela delay of or one year car in which he must manage to replace the seditious French word Coiffeur b by the truly loyal German word ord |