THE ELECTIONS IN ALSACE-LORRAINE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 24, 11 October 1873, Page 12

THE ELECTIONS IN ALSACE-LORRAINE.

J. G.K.— initials which we recognise as those of a young gentleman who has borne a chivalrous part in defending the temporal rights of the Sovereign Pontiff— writes in the « Crusader: -« The elections which have taken place during the last fortnight in Alsace and Lorraine show that 'Prussian Rule' is no more popular than it was m 1871. Out of about eighty elections, twelve are void ou account of the Small number of votes given. The coutry districts are said to have returnea 'moderate' men, but this is not to be understood in the way in which the German organs explain it. The truth is that the country districts are thoroughly Catholic and French, but the leading men have either emigrated to France or are too much afraid of neriecutton to state their opinions boldly. In Strasburg, however, the Q-ov-eminent candidates suffered a great defeat— M. Louth, the ultra-Catlio-he ex-mayor, who has been deposed by the Prussians, being elected at the hend of tne poll by a large majority. It is said that during the ii at too years about 2,600 Germans have settled in Strasburg and have oceu placed on the register, but the total votes given for the German candidates did net exceed 2,500, so few of the original inhabitants cau have voted for their opressors.