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Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13595, 9 October 1914, Page 8

Alsace was a loyal province of France. It was annexed by the Germans in 1870, but its people are still Frenchmen. Albert Schnepp, a chef at the Hotel Oakland, California, is an Alsatiau. His family has an estate which will descend to him. Germany is calling Alsatians to its colours. It confiscates the estates of those who do not respond to the call. Schnepp has been called. He is no German. Yet he want's that estate. "I am unhappy about it," says Schnepp, '/but I will fight for Germany, I think. I want to keep the estate. But if France recaptures Alsace and learns I have fought for Germany—good night! It is a what you call—predicament—If I fight for Germany, I must make sure Germany will win. Otherwise I lose."