The _Haguenauer Zeitung_ from the eleventh to the twentieth of
October published the names of seventeen soldiers, some of them
deserters, the others guilty of rebellion in favor of the enemy or of
treason.
On the twenty-fifth of October there was another list of deserters,
nineteen of whom were natives of Strassburg.
In his book, "The Martyrs of Alsace and Lorraine," M. Andre Fribourg
has fifteen pages taken from the lists of the debates of the German
war councils. These pages are made up of the names of young Alsatians
who have left their country rather than fight against France.
Besides, far from treating the Alsatians enrolled in the German Army
like Germans, the government has accorded them a distinctly different
treatment.
It has sent them to the Russian front and employed them at the most
dangerous posts, as this secret order, from the Prussian Minister of
War to the temporary commander of the Fourteenth Army Corps, proves:
All men from Alsace-Lorraine employed as secretaries,
ordnance officers, etc., must be relieved of their duties
and sent to the battle front. In the future, all the men
from Alsace-Lorraine will be sent to the "General Kommando,"
who will send them at once to the units on the Eastern
Front.
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