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LUXEMBURG AND GERMANY.
The botiotlial of Punccss Antonia of Luxcuibiin, io Clown 1'iiuce Rujien ol Bavin u, luanouiieeil Aiigub! .8, lola, con tuned til- lact tint lue lining house o' Xuoaui had tmovvii oil uh usene, and ojicmy "one ovei to the Geimins (sim tue -.eil 1 oik lunes Cuiieut Histoiy foi No ember) Hie bille is 111 and Urn botuthed oU, a widoivci It s abetted Hint the union waa aiuii-cd toi routical loasons by "lie Gemían Chancellor, Count v in llcilimc, jo thai at the Fe ice Con feienees U-eimany nigh' deiend the dyiKt tie i t,hts ol the House ol Aassau, una bi ii- the eountn um the Gcnnan Icdeiatiou
J he editor of the le'cgiatf, i load ing Ditch newsjapel, issued at The liacac made the ioi owing statement re ¡, tiding the bettutltal -
Liixeiiib ng vv is overrun in August, 1011 by "eimiuiy which tiv co committed neil ii), volatcd two titaties that oi 1S07, wheiebj the eternal ncuti ihty of the Grand D ichv was c pressiy pioelam ed by Piuajiu and the ti city of 1902, whcieby Cieiiiiany boifnd heiself nevei to employ the Luxcmbuig nulwuys foi the tiansixirt of troops und wai material
Since then the unfortunate little countiy has learned tile honois of oc cupat on Gonn my established e,ai usons thcic, lequisitioneel the i tilways und the jiost and tciegiaphs expeled the Mmistci» of foicien Bow eis fiom tho countiy, dep-iv ng Luxcmbiug by so doing of even the appenance of independence, abol^slied the immun ty of the people a lernoscntitives still keejis the export of goods so stiictly under supemsion that it is i cully at a standstill intcifeics m ds pûtes between Luxembtng empovei» and woikcixs stretelies the netwoik of espion age over the whole countiy nibitranly impnsons and condemns to death oi de pentatlón civil ans »novvn for then fiee dom of thought and act on compels Luxemburgers living m Germany to sen e in the Gciman anny exposes the eoun tiy to the constant dargei of mcalcu! able catastrophe from the Allies au at taeles, in a wold, treats Luxemburg as conquered tciritoiv, and the Litxem burgers as a conquoied people
Th s violation of tteaties, followed bv tenorisation, inised to the highest pitch the liatied of Gennany, which has always been one of the mun clniaetemties of the Luxemburgers nationul feeling More ardeutly than evei do the Luxemburger
Bint, the popular version of their nntionil song, which dcchics that, above al],
Pittssians will we not become
The Gland Ducal famih alone has no share m their feelings Its symintlues aro openly foi the intriidei Dur ng the 28 years of its Government the dynasty of the Nassauers has foigotten nothing and learned nothing It ilways lemem hers its firei"n ougin turns its back on the c-»sentiai character of Luxemburg and as it is Connan Ins suriounded it self with Geimans Those holding offices of dignity at Court ne exclus velv chosen from the Prifcsnn Bninan and Ans
tmn nobility I hese foreigners pud by the soveieign neglect no opportunity to treat hei subjects with contempt to ridi eulo their language manner», and cu» toms and to thwart then asjurations The Luxcmbuig people have alvvavs been mc,ry at this foreign canmillas insultin0 anogance and anti patriotic ¿eal Hie Press opposed it various Deputies into» pellated and the late Minister of Slate Herr Paul Li sehen made a discreet re piesentation to Court In vam The family of Nassau continued to teek its advisers outside the country and in 1014 the Giand Duchess Main Vdehide s cn tounge was quite as German as the Grand Dike Adolf ssuitc when he ascend ed the throne in 1890
' When the first German gangs" Ptream ed oxer the country these wonderful re- presentatives of a so called neutral Court were soon saunteiing in the streets of the capital, showing the w ax lo the intniders
advance guard, fi atom sing in Alcrl camp . w-th Gcnnan officers Some elavs later tho xounger among them disappeated for like cxerv German of pos don the reserve officers followed the» voice of the Gnr
man Fatherland " whcli called them to . nrms The Gr nu D ich ess did not dis mics them Thev retained their titles and
salaries and the unusual speotacle was I obseived of Luxemburg courtiers fighting ! in the ranks of the nrmx which like a .
cow al d lnd murdered Luxemburgs m J
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