Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-02 | Page 8 | Alsace People Assail French

ALSflGE PEOPLE ASSAIL FRENCH German Sympathizers Ousted By Conquerors Feei Very Bitter KAni?nriH". Germany, January 1. Baden. Wurtteniberg and Bavaria are overrun by refugees from AJsaci and COngOQuently the feeling agnlnsi the French is more bitter here, perhaps per-haps than In any other part of the old German empire. In the K"irlru) area all the old prison camps and many barracks are filled with families which were deported from Alsace, or left because be-cause they refused to live under French rule. Several thousand refugees from Al-SO.CC Al-SO.CC uro sheltered In long wooden shacks which formerly housed British prisoners In the main recrintlon park In the center uf Karlsruhe, Then,, former for-mer prisons have all been converted Into residences by Alsatians who have draped ths windows with lace curtains nnd given the wire enclosed compound a homi appearance I. the display of potted plants. The Aiaatlon refusTcee are bitter in their denunciation of the French. They tell tales of how the Krem h ei., fam-lllea fam-lllea from Strasburg and other cities on the statement of unfriendly neighbors neigh-bors that the suspeets have been propagandizing prop-agandizing for Germany and working against France. The Alsatians are eepecIaJly Indignant Indig-nant because Germ m has been abolished abol-ished from the schools of Alsace, where they gay a great majority at the population Is Uermnn-speoking and will migrate rather than abandon Its native language. Refugees from Metz and other parts of Lorraine are less critical about the language guesllon. They admit French was the predominant predomi-nant tongue in Lxrrauli Nearly all the refugees with whom the Associated Dress correspondent i.ill.e.l ,-re .-ry - harp In iheir rrltl-c!ii rrltl-c!ii of the attitude Of the,, id licr-. licr-. mun government toward Alsace and Lorraine an. I fr nk! admitted the unyielding un-yielding policy of Germany toward the tWO districts afforded the French an excuse for their attitude toward the distinctly German population. OO