AWKWARD DILEMMA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 202, 28 August 1933, Page 11

AWKWARD DILEMMA.

BRIDGE AS A "HOME."

CITIZEN OF NO MAN'S LAND. • The farcical problem of a man without any country but a bridge between Poland and Czecho-Slovalda was solvsd temporarily in Teschen by his arrest. The man, named Rosenfeld, is happy to be in a Czech gaol after running up and down the bridge for 22 hours vainly trying to secure entrance first to Czechoslovakia and then to Poland, whose territories lie either side of the bridge. In 1919, Teschen, which was formerly in Austrian territory, was allotted by the Ambassadors' Conference party to Czecho-Slovakia and partly to Poland, the River Olso, which runs through the town, providing the boundary. Since Rosenfeld was born in 1885, he has lived in the Czech portion of the city. The Czechs, however, decided that he was really a Pole and deported him by pushing him out on to the bridge. Rosenfeld walked the 100 yards across the bridge, only to be met by the rifles of the Polish frontier guards' on the other side and told to go back to Czechoslovakia. Once again he crossed the bridge, to be met this time by the rifles of the Czech frontier guards. After 22 hours of see-sawing from one end of the bridge to the other, Rosenfeld solved the problem himself. He charged through the Czecho frontier guards and was arrested. But Rosenfeld does not mind. He is off that bridge.