The municipality of Strasburg has just elected by twenty-five votes
against three a Mayor, M. Lautz, very hostile to the German annex- ation, and it would not seem that Germany has as yet made any pro- gress in converting the city to a more Teutonic mind. 'Not long ago, the Germans, anxious to conciliate, decided that time officers, instead of being quartered on the inhabitants, should take lodgings, and publicly announced that the military authorities wished to know of any apartments to be let in the town. It was said that none could be obtained, the inhabitants declaring that they had indeed vacant rooms, but preferred privacy to the tenancy of the foreigners. One curious instance of the inveteracy of the feeling came under the present editor's personal notice, Desiring postage-stamps, he tendered at time principal post-office to the German official the ordinary German coin, The officer refused it, and demanded French coin, remarking by way of apology that it was mostly Frenchmen who came there, and they would not touch the German coin. In the shops they take it freely enough, but they will not take it from a German official.
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