GRAVE MENACE TO SWITZERLAND
SWISS MINISTER'S WARNING
A GERMAN INVASION
STERN RESISTANCE WILL BE
OFFERED
Berne, November 26._ In tho course of a speech, the Minister for the Interior urged that thero should bo unity of all classes in the present terrible crisis, and for the perilous times which wero ahead. Ho gravely warned the people of the possibility of a belligerent violating Swiss territory, owing to some unforeseen event. AVhoever did would ho unhesitatingly combated with the full strength of _ Switzerland's armed forces, oven against a manifest superiority, and the struggle would be prosecuted to the last extremity.— Router. [A message received from London last- Thursday stated:—"The 'Matin' says that von Hindcnbui-g is pouring troops from Austria to the West. Divisions of artillery aro Arriving in Flanders. Hindcnburg that he will have a sufficient force available to attack, nnd no 'scrap of paper'' will deter him from att.icking the French flank through Switzerland. "Franco must find that she, cannot overlook the drain required of her to conduct the immense battle which is pending."]
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 55, 28 November 1917, Page 5
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