PEACE TREATY COMEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 July 1921, Page 5

PEACE TREATY COMEDY.

FRENCH WOMEN BECOME GERMANS. DOMESTIC BLISS IN PERIL. By Telegranh.—Press Assn —Copyright. Received July 29, 10.55 pm. Paris, July 29. An .musing eccentricity of the porce treaty is now for the first time made clear, and has sent a wave of consternation throughout Alsace-Lorraine. An obscure section in the schedule of the treaty provides that where a woman of German, Belgian, Italian, and even French origin married an Alsace-Lorrainer prior to the armistice she became and remains German, unless she claimed French nationality before January 15, 1921. In ignorance of this provision thousands of women failed to comply, with the re.-/lit that between seven and eight thousaid French husbands have been sudderly amazed to find their wives are German. Even a French woman who married a German in 1913 now finds that she is the German wife of a Frenchman. The indignant wives do not intend to allow this state of affairs, which is unlikely to be conducive to domestic bliss, to continue. They want international problems cleared up without delay,, and are arranging to hold a monster demonstration in Strassburg to demand the extension of the treaty provision till January, 1923.—Times Service.