GERMANS IN LUXEMBURG.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15495, 26 April 1918, Page 5

GERMANS IN LUXEMBURG.

ANTI-PRUSSIAN FEELING

A traveller who recently arrived in Holland from Luxemburg, states that the country is in the hands of a sort of German gendarmerie.

It is difficult to obtain leave to move any considerable distance, even within the country itself. The Germans have established a control which has all the appearance cf being intended as permanent. All the railways are being rigorously guarded by German troops. Relations between the civil population of Luxemburg and the Germans are very cool, public sentiment being more anti-German than ever. In some cafes in the town of Luxemburg you may hear the people softly start a song which ends, "We won’t be Prussians.” In some quarters the Grand Duchess is accused of being pro-German, and the more friendly relations between the Court and the Germans have lost her much of her former popularity among the people. Food is scarce, but not quit© so scarce as in Germany. Some anxiety is felt and expressed lest after the war the Entente Powers should decline to bother themselves with Luxemburg, and leave the country in German hands.