FRANCO-GERMAN TROUBLES

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 47, 29 September 1887, Page 2

FRANCO-GERMAN TROUBLES

A FRENCH LIEUTENANT SHOT. GREAT EXCITEMENT ON THE FRENCH Frontier. Fams, Sept. 26, While a French lieutenant and a gamekeeper were out shooting close to the FrancoGerman frontier yesterday, some unseen person on the German side of the frontier fired at them, killing the gamekeeper and wounding the lieutenant; Sept. 2?. The persons who shot at and killed a gamekeeper and wounded a French lieutenant are said to be keepers of a German estate on the frontier. They assert that they fired at the Frenchmen thinking them to bs poachers. The French Government have instructed their Minister at Berlin to take diplomatic action in tho matter.

Sept. 28, Great excitement prevails on the FrancoGerman frontier. The surgeons who examined the wounds of the two Frenchmen shot declare that they were caused by shot fired from military rifles. The French troops that garrison the frontier fortresses are very restless, and in common with the people complain bitterly of the method in which the French Government are redressing the various grievances that are continually occurring Owing to the severity of the German officials; A GERMAN SOLDIER THE MURDERER. THE PROBABLE RESULT. I-Aiea. The greatest possible excitement has been occasioned over the shooting of the two Frenchmen, It now appears from enquiries made that the shots were fired by a Genian soldier. France has demanded the fullest reparation and has [plainly stated that nothing but this will be accepted, Count Munster, German ambassador at Paris, has assured the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, that a searching enquiry will be ffiade into thejmatter. Further developments fire awaited with intense anxiety, as the slightest cause for a rupture may ba seized upon by either France or Germany.