OUTRAGE AT INVASION

LUXEMBOURG, SUNDAY.

Apart from the disgust for everything German, which was roused by the outrage of the invasion of 1914, the causes of the present change are economic. Before the war, Luxembourg, though an independent state, was included in the German customs union. The chief industries of the little state, which numbers 260,000 people, are in iron and iron ore. Its natural economic connection, therefore, is with the power which holds the iron and coal of Lorraine and the Saar Valley. Both the iron-workers and the commercial classes of Luxembourg are strongly in favour of a new orientation of her economic policy, and the great majority are in favour of some forms of customs union with France. All Luxembourg stands together for independence. The last four years have only strengthened the desire of the little state for complete freedom.