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XX CRUSHED ALSACE V AFTER 4O TEARS , VXGIX. CTlmee and Sydney San Services.) (Received .8 a.m.) LONDON, March 9. The "Times" correspondent at Paris says that after forty years of suffering the people of "Alsace and Lorraine havo' heard the bugles of justice and victory, blow. The people have responded as well as they could; Five thousand of her sfis have crossed to France, and now the silence of the cemetery reigns except in the' radiant patch opposite Belfort, ; embracing the fifteen miles of territory reconquered'in'Alsace.' 'if. Poincaire (the President) recently visited this district. Old people wepit with joy, and the children cheered in the streets. The people flew flags that had been hidden in cellars for forty years. This touching welcome disproved" the assertion that the second. generation had grown lukewarm. M. Poincare declared that the people were more anti German than ever. . /,- r
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 59, 10 March 1915, Page 5
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