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Show FUGS RAISED ON MONUMENT Stars and Stripes Float Beside French Tri-color in Alsace-Lorraine. Alsace-Lorraine. CROWDS AT CEREMONY Emblems Unfurled Stand for Restitution of Territory to French Republic. PARIS, Dec. 24. Tho Strassburg monument on the Place Concorde which during the years before the war was draped with crepe and for whidh flowers and ,bunting were substituted in August, 1914, today flies the Stars and Stripes alongside the French Tricolor. Tri-color. The Ameriacn and French flags were raised over the monument to the Alsatian city yesterday afternoon in the presence of a large crowd which, in spite of' the biting frost, uncovered as the two emblems wore unfurled. American Ambassador Sharpe and a number of delegates from societies of natives of Alsace-Lorraine wore present pres-ent The flags were raised in the name of the General Alsatian-Lorraine Association Asso-ciation of America, and tho World League of New York for tho Restitution Restitu-tion of Alsace-Lorraine. |