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Fl*« «Lingo PuzzlesIn Strasbourg{Continued from page 1)»■ *off the old signs, and a few new ones, but even after the job has been completed, it w 11 take the local res.dents some time to absorb their new addresses.Another thing snafued Is this currency. Pay your bill with francs ^ and your change will be in marks., straight from Berl n. Merchants1 ask for payment in these marks in preference to francs. Perhaps they are not sure of the present rate of exchange, perhaps they . expect a return v.slt. At any rate it's the dogface who pays, getting nipped* 15 francs for one of Der Fuehrer's promises to pay.Everybody speaks German, since all this part of edstern France was made an integral part of the Re ch In 1940 French, which is aga;n being taken out of the mothballs, sounds that way' and is often a hardly Intelligible patter of German and French.Any place else in the1 world anyone with local accents I ke the Alsatians and some Lonrangrs is an Allied enemy. And even here, with heaps of German troops skinning Out of their uniforms and pretending to be just plain cltzens of eastern France' in between sniping and avoiding capture, any confused dogface has good cause to wonder.It's at n.ght that the Strasbourg nightmare beg ns in earnest Allied patrols roam the streets as busy as on the foxhole 1 ne. Any lights showing after 7 o'clock are shot out and no questions asked. A rifle cracks and a slug whistles toward someone or ricochets off a budding. Burpguns blast and a couple of frauleins are hauled out of a building and uway to the PW cage. It's hardly the place to take the dog out tor his evening const tutional.. There's never a dull moment Doughfeet and French tankmen really got something when they took Strasbourg, something they can tell their grandchildren about(ThnovooflwcangorutHiMitrifitmitsh
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Mediterranean Marseilles Stars and Stripes
Marseille, Provence Alpes Cote d Azur, FR
Tue, Dec 05, 1944
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Francois I.
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