ALSACE-LORRAINE'S "REVENGE"
When with the signing pf tlio Armmtico Alsace and Lorraine wero returned to France, tho population suddenly conceived a feeling of revenge against tho bronze statutes of tho German Luipcrors, for which they had no» use (wrote tho Paris correspondent of the London mm Telegraph"). I On tho morrow of the Armistice, tho monuments of the Oerman Emperors aat Ifetz woro pulled down by the people, and the municipality wok possession of tho bronze and sold it. iictz thought of the French soldiers who had made the restitution of 'Alsace-Lorraine possible, and of that great patriot, Taiil berouWe. who, hinwolf a soldier, m war of IS7O, spent his life in .tanning the flame of patriotism, in toping alive n the hearts of his compatriots the hope at the lost provinces would be res torcd tn Franco On tho esplanade where stood he 2 ument to WiUiam-L.lho founder :if the German Empirc-now w morewill be creeled a monument of a 1 mlu. place of Hint of Friedneh 11. on Uie Place du Boil Georges.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 61, 6 December 1920, Page 4
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175ALSACE-LORRAINE'S "REVENGE" Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 61, 6 December 1920, Page 4
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