FRENCH FRONTIER INCIDENT.
STRONG PROTEST TO ITALY [By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyrightl Received Friday, 7.45 p.m. LONDON, July 8. M. Bonnet has instructed AT. Blondell. Charge d’Affaires at Rome, to make a strong protest to the Italian Government over the frontier incident, says the Paris correspondent of The Times. Delaitre is still in a critical condition. An official investigation established that he was well within French terri lory when wounded. (Two Frenchmen on holiday inadvertently crossed the frontier and were fired on by Italian frontier guards. The Frenchmen immediately retraced their steps but the guards continued firing until the Frenchmen were 250 yards inside the French frontier where one, Rene Delaitre, a medical student, was seriously wounded. Empty Italian cartridge cases are alleged to have been found 25 yards inside the French territory.)
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 July 1938, Page 5
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