BORDER CLASH
ONE MAN DEAD
OTHERS KIDNAPPED
WILD AFFRAY
NAZI OFFICIALS SEIZE DUTCH
CAR
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received November 10, 1.50, p.m.)
LONDON, November 9. The Amsterdam correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company states that one,man, believed to be Dutch, was shot dead and" a number of Dutchmen kidnapped at Venloo, on the Dutch-German frontier, tonight during an armed clash between German officials and Dutchmen. A German motor-car crossed the frontier when a Dutch car approaching the Dutch barrier was ten yards from the German Customshouse. The Germans presumably wanted to continue their journey in Holland, in a Dutch car, whereupon German officials and Customs officers, all of whom were armed, ran across the Dutch frontier. They menaced the onlookers and ordered the customers at a nearby cafe to move inside.
A wild shooting affray followed in which an occupant of the Dutch car was shot dead and his body dragged back into Germany. The other occupants of the Dutch car, and the car itself, were seized and taken to German territory.
The Dutch authorities have ordered an immediate investigation.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 114, 10 November 1939, Page 8
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180BORDER CLASH Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 114, 10 November 1939, Page 8
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