The war against the French language has been marked by the suppression of all French newspapers since the war's beginning, the _Journal d'Alsace-Lorraine_, the _Messin_, _the Nouvelliste d'Alsace-Lorraine_. But nothing shows better the necessity of having organs of public opinion in French than the establishment at Metz of the _Gazette d'Alsace-Lorraine_ by the government, which served as a model for the _Gazette des Ardennes_, founded later on at Mezieres, to demoralize the inhabitants of the invaded districts in the north and west of France. _The Treatment of the Soldiers from Alsace-Lorraine_ The soldiers from Alsace-Lorraine, whose loyalty was proclaimed at the war's beginning, have, as a matter of fact, been treated like spies and embryo deserters. In August, 1915, at the opening of the Alsatian parliament, the Statthalter denounced the anti-patriotism of a part of the population and stigmatized the "traitors" who had "gone over to the enemy." In fact, no less than fourteen thousand Alsatians, in the face of manifold perils and difficulties, had rejoined the colors of their true country. All the newspapers of Alsace-Lorraine still publish the lists of them as citizens and of their belongings as "refractory individuals." The movement has never stopped. During the thirty-second month of the war, on the fourteenth of March, 1917, General von Nassner, commandant for the district of Saarbruck, published the following extraordinary order: "Whoever, after due examination, has reason to believe that a soldier or a man on reprieve proposes to desert and who can still prevent the execution of this crime, must without delay give notice of this fact to the nearest military or police authority." The Strassburg _Neueste Nachrichten_ for the twenty-seventh of September announced that the "_chambre correctionnelle_ at Kolmar had condemned by default one hundred and ninety men from the arrondissements of Guebwiller and Ribeauville to fines of six hundred marks or forty days in prison for having failed to perform their military obligations." The _Oberelsaessische Landeszeitung_ for the eleventh of October, 1917, announced sentences of fines of three thousand marks or three hundred days in prison for the same reason against seven persons. 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.