FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS.
ANOTHER FRONTIER INCIDEFT. A FRENCH OFFICER SHOT. DIPLOMATIC ACTION. [bkoier's telegram.] Paris, September 25. A French lieutenant, with,a gamekeeper, while out shooting close to the Franco-German frontier, was shot at yesterday by unseen persons, on the French side of the frontier, who are supposed to have been Customs officials. The keeper was killed, and the lieutenant had his thigh shattered by a ball. Paris, September 25. It has been ascertained that the persons who shot at and wounded a French lieutenant, at the same time killing a gamekeeper who accompanied him, are keepers of German estates on the frontier. They assert they fired at the Frenchmen believing them to be poachers. The French Government \ have taken diplomatic action in the matter. i
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8064, 27 September 1887, Page 5
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124FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8064, 27 September 1887, Page 5
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