SUZANNE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 297, 4 September 1918, Page 2

SUZANNE

(Authorised by tho Colonial Institute.) Suzanne had' ani oval face, brown, bright eyes, warm brown hair, and tho complexion of a rosebud. While the German guns were thudding not miuiy miles away from her Alsatian town, sho stood up with all the dignity otf eight years of age, and sang us the "Marseillaise." Her father, a doctor, who had fled from Mulhaus in 1914, watched his daughter proudly, and when she had finished, turned to us, asking:— "Is there anything German about that child? Look at her colouring, hor eyes, her hair, they are distinctively Alsatmn, and as you must have noticed to be typical in the girls' schools. Yet the Germans aro spreading it about through their lying propaganda that Alsace is really a- Gorman country, that wo are really Teutonic by descent, and that therefore Alsaco is rightly under the heel of the Kaiser. "I supposo as a doctor I am inclined to consider the racial aspects, and note how in physical characteristics as well as in, temperament we have nothing in common with the heavy, gross Boscho. To us, with his spectacles and his short-' sighted conceit, he was; always rather a humorous sight. "Havo you heard how Han si, ' the caricaturist, finally left Alsace? No. The story is worth hearing, for it is eloquent of German methods' of administration. A few days .before the declaration of war, while sitting in a cafo at Colmar, a party of young German officers we're, making themselves objectionable by their noise and their jnsolonce. AVhen they left, Hansi mockingly burnt some sugar in a saucer, mid proceeded to -fumigate the chairs which they had occupied. This action was reported to the police, and Hansi was prosecuted, and charged by the attorney of tho Leipzig tribunal for high treason 1 He. was actually sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment for his little joke. Fortunately, he succeeded in ■ slipping across tho frontier to Paris, where as Lieutenant Hausi he now fills a position in tho Ficnch Army. ,-

"But does not the story well illustrate tho. oppressive measures which tho Gormans took to bring us to heel? Yot they pretend that we arc of a German stock! If that argument is true, why in 1914 did von Jagow say that 'Prussian officers stationed in Alsace feel as- if they were encamped in an enemy's country' ? "If there was any truth in their claim, why, just before the war. did they imprison thousands of good Alsatians, many of whom have died in prison, including Freiss and Hauth, two of our deputies? Why did they sentence Alsatians by tlin hundred to death? The very numbers givo the lie to the assertion that Alsace is really German. One woman, who was crying when she reached the nrison in August, 1914, was greeted bv tho iraoler in these words: 'Dnn't cry. madam, you will find yourself in excellent eomnany here. Our house is the only one in which French can be spoken with impunity.' "But.l will give you another'striking proof of the Alsatian feeling for France, shown bv the numbers who voluntarily havo joined the French Army, risking not only their livop. but all their future i" Alsncn, if it is not recovered frnm Germany. Thnw are now Miwt 30.00 D one! Lorr.iiners serving in the French Armv. There ."'•n jibnut 170 officers, including; some 20 trcneralp. of AlsnHmi n.r'l Lorraine origin in the General Stiff of thr> French Armv, and ovr -WO ofIVTR nltosToth"''. /s onnosed to those fiauros.you will find tl ,n T were Ipst ye"r on \y «i>: Atetinn officers! mi \ho flerman Ar»"\ one lenernl nnfl fivp others. "Thesp fiimres will show ymi how Alsace hns rernninotl nHophor] to Frrvnrp. and how t.lin nrnsovit, pnmbntnnt. oration prp mniiTtsininc. the Hrim. ple .i?i>inct. the t>9 "allsintlv ns th«ir ■T" + 'io"<! did, but with more open hostility."

■At the JS'avy League entertainment held last oveuinjf in. the Concert Clianir her of tho own Hall, in aid of the French Appeal Fund, delicious homomade sweets were sold, also flowers. In charge of tlto sweo.ts were Mrs.. Phillips Turner, Mrs. Mackenzie, and Sirs. Hempton, and of the flowers Mrs. Hanan, Mrs. Bell, and Mrs. Gray, with many girl assistants.

Wellington's copper trail crept forward again .yesterday, and extends now to a point beyond Porewa, miles away. "I cannot pass the trail by," said one lady who was adding pennies to the long line yesterday, "and I don't understand how anybody can. Isn't it a curious thing that while there are several big organisations to look after the soldier while he is well, there is only one, the Red Cross, to care for him when he is wounded and sick?" Copper trail money is Red Cross money. A. sum of Bs., the proceeds of an afternoon sale arranged hy three small girls, and a parcel of daffodils that was sold at the Bed' Gross 'Shop, were among yesterday's gifts in aid of the trail. Reports of successful effort, cpntimie to come from the country districts. Superfluous hair is destroyed without pain or disfigurement by lUJSMA (Reg'd.). A lady writes that a friend who" used ftUSMA with complete success six years ago has not been troubled with superfluous hair since. Originals of testimonials may be seen. Correspondence or personal interviews invited. Mrs. Mullen, Courtenay Place, opposite Tram Terminus (upstairs). Pep'.. IX—Advt. Preparations I bat creep into your existence, with instructions so simply lold they cling to Ihe memory! The JfttSiom preparations are renowned for the llatr and Face. No advance in prices. All Hairwork. Correspondence invited from thoso who cannot call, Miss Milsorn, 9i Willis Street. 'Phone 814—Advt.