TOWN OF STRASBOURG
GREAT STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE. Strasbourg which is reported ti have been evacuated, is a town of France, capital of the department of Basßhin, and only three miles from the Rhine River. Its population i: about 180.000.
It is part of the territory which returned to France after the World War and, as a place' of great strategic importance has long been strongly forti fled.
In Roman days it was a fortified station and later the headquarters of the Eighth Legion. For centuries a part of the German kingdom, it was afterwards a member of the League of Swa bian towns and was seized by King Louis XIV in 1681, during a time of peace.
It was captured by the Germans in 1871 after considerable damage had been done to the city and cathedral by bombardment. It stands at the junction of the 11l and the Breusch Rivers. The 11l divides into arms, forming an island on which the city grew, later expanding over the old fortified area.
Its chief industries are metal manufactures, paper-making and tobacco tanning, brewing, and printing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1939, Page 7
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182TOWN OF STRASBOURG Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1939, Page 7
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