A SHAM ALSATIAN
. The. former president of tho CEuvre das Aleaciens-Lorrains, Monsieur (or Herr) Kuentzmann, has just' been arrested. His history is reniarkable. If the charges against him bo proved, ho will Afford one more example of. tho ingenious working of German methods in France, as elsewhere. On the outbreak of war Enentzmann was elected president of the' society. After that doubts about his administration of the society's funds were raised, and he was forced to resign. Other things subsequently canlo out. and Kuentzmann is to bo court martialled.
At the outbreak of war he employed' as his secretary a man called. Spitzer. since proved to be a German agent. Between them they had access to lists of all the families in German Alsace and Lorraine whose son's had enlisted in the French ftrmy. Proof ha* since, it is alleged,.been obtained that this information was communicated,to Germany, and that in consecpuenee the Alsatian and Lorraine famiLee coftcefried. were persecuted. Kuentzmann is also charted with having obtained spurious certificates of Alsatian birth for German 1 (subjects, and to have obtained for them situations as njotor drivers at tho front, in some cases of cars in which leading Staff officers travelled:
Knentzmann's arrest oame about in a curious way. At <a meeting of the society of which he was then president an Alsatian went up to him and spoke in. Alsatian dialect. Kuentzmann did not understand * .^ ord ,- tes * % .which all Alsatians Jfnth French sympathies are tried is the (peculiar tAJsatian dialect, information •wao given, and Kuentzmann now .awaits trial.
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Evening Star, Issue 16088, 13 April 1916, Page 7
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278A SHAM ALSATIAN Evening Star, Issue 16088, 13 April 1916, Page 7
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