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itJSTBALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. BELGIAN TROOPS SHOT. BERLIN, June 22. A Belgian outpost in the village of Mail, near liner, stopped two Germans and demanded their passports. The Germans refused to show any, and attacked the Belgians, shooting dead two sentinels and wounding a third. Afterwards the assassins fled to the River Lippe. They partially undressed and swam across to a part of the bank which is not being patrolled, and there escaped. They are stilt at large. The Belgian authorities have ordered tiie closing of all public places in Biter for three months, and announce that anyone found in the streets after six in the evening will bo immediately shot. The tramways are stopped, and tKe telephone system is closed down. Armoured cars are patrolling the streets.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1923, Page 2
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131GERMAN ITEMS Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1923, Page 2
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