TROUBLE ON THE FRANCO-GERMAN FRONTIER.
♦ • [BEUTBR'S TELEGRAMS - OOPYRIGRT.J Paris, September 25. A French lieutenant, with a gamekeeper, while out shooting close to the Franco-German frontier, was shot at yesterday by unseen persons on the German side of the frontier, who are supposed to have been Customs officials. The keeper was killed, and the lieutenant had his thigh shattered by a ball. Paris, September 25 It has been ascertained that the persons who shot at and wounded the French Lieut., and at the same time killing a gamekeeper who accompanied him, are the keepeis of a German estate on the frontier. They assert that they fired at the Frenchmen believing them to be poachers. The French Government have taken diplomatic action m the matter.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1673, 27 September 1887, Page 3
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123TROUBLE ON THE FRANCO-GERMAN FRONTIER. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1673, 27 September 1887, Page 3
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