ALSACE—LORRAINE

Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1940, Page 11

ALSACE—LORRAINE

again in german hands The German Army of Occupation and Nazi civilian officials in Alsace-Lorrairte ^ rapidly are putting the finishing touches j on re-Germanisation of the two province.s j which apparently await only the stroke ; of a pen on a peace treaty to make , of&cially part of the German Reich |

once more. states a message pttblished in the Christian Science Monitor. They are proceedingly thoroughly in transform^tion of the area won for Germany by Chancellor Bismarck, lost by Kaiser Wilhelm in the Great War and now won again by Adolf Hitler. Berlin reported recentlv that Herr Hitler rad turned over the entire civil administration of the provinces, hitherto in military hands. to civilian officials. Alsace and Lorraine have been incorporated, respectively, inio Ihe Baden and Saar postal sjstems. An ordinary Ger-

man stanip is Ijeing used instead of the surchargcd type introduced in German- 1 occupied Polancl or the ordinary French stamps used in other Nazi-occupied areas of France. French no longer is recognised as the official langnage of the two provinces. where it formedly shared a place with the prevailing German in courts under the French rule. At Metz, the picturesque esplanade has becn renamed Platz of the Fuehrer. Mulhouse's Neu Quarticr Platz now is Reichsmarshal Goering Platz.