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STRANGE MISTAKE

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.)

MOBILISATION ORDERED IN-

FRANCE

MEN HURRIED TO THE FRONTIER. j (Received November 28, 10 a.m.) PAIIIS, November 27. j Through mistaking instructions, the j commander of a brigade in tho Department of Meui-the-et-Moselle, on j tho Franco-German frontier, directed Ja general mobilisation instead of a [local one. Tho men availablo in

seven communes assembled at night time, before the error was discovered The commander was been arrested

EXTRAORDLXARY SCENES

FIVE THOUSAND MEN ROUSED

I (Received Last Night, 9.45 o'clock.) j PARIS, November 28. ! Extraordinary (scenes .occurred at Nancy. Brigadier Blion, of the Gendarmes, who has been arrested believing a telegram was an order to mobilise, opened the sealed instruction. Church bells were wrung, and tho town crier roused five thousand men from their beds.

Posters were hastily' pasted on walls, summoning all between twentyfive and forty-five years of age to join the colours.

Reservists left their weeping wives and hastened to headquarters. Five hours elapsed before the error wa.s discovered.

Meanwhile military telegraphists took possession of the Post Offices, sections marched to protect the railways, and patrols hastened to the frontiers.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19121129.2.17.7

Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 29 November 1912, Page 5

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Tapeke kupu
192

STRANGE MISTAKE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 29 November 1912, Page 5

STRANGE MISTAKE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 29 November 1912, Page 5

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