FRONTIER VIOLATED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 272, 29 August 1933, Page 5

FRONTIER VIOLATED

GERMANS ENTER SWITZERLAND.

SLAV DRAGGED WITH ROPES. < , ALLEGED SUGAR SMUGGLER. (United Press Association—Copyright). . (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) BERNE, August '2B. Tlie Swiss are intensely indignant at the violation of frontier rights. A. Czechoslovakian named Weber, allegedly engaged in smuggling sugar into Germany, was suddenly seized by three Germans while he was walking in Swiss territory near Ramsen: Weber was. treated with considerable brutality. He was tied with ropes and dragged across the frontier, though he was. bleeding badly. A Swiss Customs officer hastened to his rescue, but was afraid to shoot the German patrol. The Swiss Government has instructed its Ambassador at Berlin to demand that the perpetrators of the outrage be severely punished.

OUTRAGE IN ALSACE-LORRAINE.

BELGIAN GENDARME INJURED

(Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) PARIS, .August 28. Another frontier outrage is reported, this time in the village of Birgreuland, which is in the portion of-Alsace-Lor-raine given to Belgium at the end of the war. Four Nazis, in uniform, crossed the frontier, and walked the streets of Bergreuland insulting any who refused to salute them. 1 • Belgian gendarmes were called and escorted the Nazis across the frontier, hut three hours later the Nazis returned, when a Nazi with a bottle of beer, fractured a gendarme’s skull. The gendarme is now in hospital. His assailant was arrested but the others escaped .• ;