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Show GERMAN CAMPAIGN TO TERMOR ' I , RAGING IN ALSACE - LORRAINE I FRENCH "FRONT IN FRANCE, SepL 26. (Correspondence of The Associated As-sociated Press.) Fresh evidence of the German campaign of terrorizatlon in Alsace-Lorraine comes to hand every day. Since the beginning of hostilities, German cotirt-martlal sitting sit-ting in the annexed provinces have inflicted sentences totalling 5,000 years' imprisonments on citizens of Alsace and Lorraine, whose sole offence of-fence has been the expression ol opinions favorable to France. All classes and all districts Have suffered. suf-fered. Since Alsace and Lorraine were annexed an-nexed by Germany in 1871 until the outbreak of the war In 1914, no fewer than five hundred thousand of the in-I in-I habitants of the provinces, according to official figures, have migrated to I France. Immediately after the declara-, declara-, tion ,of war three years ago every one i of real Alsatian or Lorraine origin who could find a way to do so, made !a hurried departure over the frontier I line. Hundreds of those remaining I owing to their inability to leave in j time were at once seized as suspects and sent to prisons or internment j camps, where they have been kept In confinement for three years, i Many Join Colors. While the migration was in progress, prog-ress, tho younger and more daring spirits among the men of Alsace and Lorraine- took the stUl more seripiis step of Joining' the French army. Over 30,000 of them have fought beneath the tri-color since the war began. Many of them by their heroism have gained high rank, while numbers of their comrades have made the great sacrifice. In addition to the men In the ranks and among the minor officers who have fought for France, the two provinces prov-inces have supplied many military leaders of high renown, among them no fewer than five generals have scaled their patriotism by dying a soldier's death in fighting the Germans. Ger-mans. These five wero Generals Sibelle, Dupuy, Dion, Trumclet-Faber and Stirn. . . |