Strasbourg contained then about 65,000 Germans out of 180,000.

Among the remaining German officials there was often a curious lack of realisation of what had happened to Germany and to them.

"The Germans are very _gauche_--their tone is still just the same!" And the Doctor described a scene he had witnessed in one of the bureaux of the prefecture only the day before.

A German official was at his desk.

Enter an Alsatian to make an inquiry about some point in a bankruptcy case.