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Show Army Reserve Stores ! Enough to Last People Until April. :N0T USED SINCE OCT. Solf Playing for World Sympathy by Urgent I?.--- Appeal... ' ZURICH, Switzerland, Nov. 30. Food conditions in Germany are by no means so critical and urgent as Dr. W. S. Solf, the German foreign for-eign minister, woidd lead the world to believe, according to information in-formation received here. Germany has food enough there to last until April if the army reserve stores are placed at the disposal of the people. Since October these reserves re-serves have not been touched. There should be no famine in Germany this winter, it is said, if strict rationing is enforced and stocks are methodically distributed. distrib-uted. STRASSBURG, Wednesday, Nov. 27. Several hundred thousand Germans In Alsace and Lorraine have begun to experience suffering which equals, if It does not exceed, that which the Germans have Inflicted upon the natives na-tives during the past forty-eight years. A great many of them who are holding public offices find their occupations occu-pations suddenly withdrawn. Many others who were employes of the pub-flc pub-flc administrations are living in daily fear of the necessity of leaving the, country. i In addition to these apprehensions, j the Germans feel real anguish at the idea of leaving Alsace and Lorraine. They now strongly prefer the two j provinces to Germany. They have ceased to be German but still have not become Alsatians, They have not acquired French culture because they have lacked the necessary social contact con-tact with the natives but they have forgotten some of their German Ideas and have grown to highly regard Alsace Al-sace and Lorraine and arc solicitous for the future. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY OF OCCUPATION. Friday, Nov, 29. (By The Associated Press) An American who has just returned from a trip which extended as far as Frankfort, Germany, says that the withdrawal of the Gorman troops Is being conducted in a most orderly manner everywhere, despite reports to the contrary. This man Is familiar with military matters generally. Another American who has returned from Germany says that on Wednesday Wednes-day he passed German troops all day. The columns, he says, Avere in perfect order and there was the usual number num-ber of officers with the men. He believes be-lieves that reports that the Germans are disorganized arc based on a fow isolated cases. |