BORDER INCIDENT
SHOT BY CUSTOMS OFFICER. .United Preso Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 10.15 a.in.) BERLIN, July 3. At Strasbourg, Ferm.ui,.a Customs officer, shot and critica.lv w cui.dcd an Alsatian innkeeper, George, who was iisnir.g without a license in the Lliine, with a gamekeiper Furst. Both are residents of Wauzchu. The current carried Lliein with fifty yards of the German bank. An official sprang up and slum led:— Are you Germans ? They replied “Yes.’’ but the Alsatian accent betrayed them. I hey disobeyed an order to land, whereupon the official fired Ids revolver thrice, wounding George near the heart. T'ui'- t rowed to the French bank and rushed to the hospital. French and German piToe have opened an ino'iir’*.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1931, Page 5
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121BORDER INCIDENT Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1931, Page 5
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