Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1919 — The Day Came at Lass. [ARTICLE]

The Day Came at Lass.

Special permission to accompany the French armies into Strassburg was asked by Captain Danner, grandson of Baron Pron, prefect of Strassburg during the war of 1870. At the time of the old city’s bombardment the cathedral belfry was struck, and from the'' debris the prefect secured a piece of granite, and Instructed his children that whenever She day of liberation came they should take the stone hack and present it to "the of •the town. Carefully kept during the 48 years, it was to be returned to Strassburg by Captain Danner on the very day of the entry of the French troops.—Christian Science Monitor.