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Show SWISS MUST JOIN ARMY German Government Serves Notice LTpon 8,000 Young Swiss Living in Alsace Lorraine Lor-raine to Enlist or Leave the Country Geneva. Switzerland. April 19. The German military administration has notiiled SO'.i young Swiss living in Alsace Lorraine that they must either eith-er serve in the German army or leave the country-Dating country-Dating from the time the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine became Ger-. Ger-. man, Switzerland and Germany have had an agreement whereby the Swisa residing in Alsace-Lorraine were exempt ex-empt from service in either the German Ger-man or the Swiss army This arrangement ar-rangement has now expired, and the I Swiss in these privinces must either become German subjects or Swiss citizens. They hae fifteen days in w hich to decide. The German administration ad-ministration will no doubt apply the I new regulations with consideration. ' ; but nevertheless thousands of Swiss 1 families over the border are considerably consid-erably disturbed at the necessity of j making such an important decision at j such short notice. The " Devil s Graveyard." a ceme- i tery on top of a rocky hill overlook- j tug Blon, canton of Valais. where for' centuries were burled sorcerers and J sorceresses, is being blasted away to make place for public Improvements. From the tenth century to the early seventeenth, those supposed to be In traffic with the Evil One were tor- tured. executed and buried there. The excavators have found bones esti-mated esti-mated to be those of many hundreds of persons. Professor Pelssard, the government nrcheologist in excavating at Bias-sens, Bias-sens, near Frlbourg. has found imbedded im-bedded in quarts the bones of a worn, an, together with some Jewelry of the Gallic-Helvetic period. B. C 150 to 200 The ornaments were a bronze necklace and a bracelet, set with pieces of blue glass. Prince lx.iil Ferdinand of Bavaria h.ir- won a suit, through the Bavarian minister at Bern, to compel a certain cer-tain publisher to destroy the manuscript manu-script of a scandalous book concerning concern-ing the life of the prince. It came out in evidence that the prince had reiused to pay 540,000 to the author ot the book for its suppression. The author is a woman and Uvea in Munich. The downward sliding movement of the top of Mont Caroline, which threatened to overwhelm the village of Fleuriei a couple of weeks ago. bat. stopped, but the people In tbo valley live In hourly anxiety that the millions of tons of rock and earth j aboe then, will fall uion the town. The authorities have ordered the V inhabitants of the danger zone to move temporarily. Watchers have been posted on neighboring peaks iH connected by improvised telephone il lines, with sentinels below, to 6ignal H at any moment, day or night, the re- WWl currence of the movemen' Deep Bi trenches are being dug at the base of iHH the mountain In the hope of arresting LK the landslide, if It comes, or at least 1B$ check It for a few moments. S |
