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Show ANTI-GERMANS IN OUTBURST People in Alsace-Lorraine Indignant In-dignant Against Second War Loan and Hindenburg Day. PICTURES TORN DOWN Kuehlmann's Assertion That Inhabitants Are for German ; Rule Is Refuted. WASHINGTON. Oct. 19. Advices reaching here today from newspapers of Strassburg, Metz and other points in Alsace-Lorraine, says the people responded re-sponded with a general outburst of anti-German feeling to attempts to float part of the German loan and celebrate the birthday of von Hindenburg. In spite of the furore the Prussian military authorities have produced in the country on the occasion of the birthday of von Hindenburg, October 2, many posters bearing the likeness of the marshal were scratched out and torn down overnight in Strassburg. At Metz, the official advertisements and posters of the new war loan also were torn down and so far the outraged German authorities have failed to find any one to punish. These reports are regarded as more contradictory evidence to Foreign Minister Min-ister von Kuehlmann's repeated assertions asser-tions that the 'people of Alsace-Lorraine do not wish to be separated from Germany. oo |