24 DECEMBER 1870, Page 2

Alsace, by all accounts, both French and German, continues, incurably

restless under conquest. The Allgenaeine Zeitung (published at Augsburg) says that the Alsatians will not accept office under the Germans, and that the newspapers daily give letters from officials resigning the offices assizned to them, and. declining to help the Germans, so that German administrators are brought from a distance to govern the province. Attacks are constantly made on the telegraph and railways, so that Alsatians are compelled to accompany the trains to ensure the safety of the German officials. Young Alsatians escape in considerable numbers. to the French armies, and German Alsatians pretend not to under- stand German, answering their German conquerors in bad French, with " Je ne combrens bas."