STRONG PROTEST
FRONTIER SHOOTING WOUNDED FRENCHMAN CONDITION CRITICAL ACTION BY ITALIANS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received July 8, 5.30 p.m.) Times Cable LONDON. July 8 The French Foreign Minister, M. Bonnet, has instructed M. Blondell, Charge d'Affaires at Rome, strongly to protest to the Italian Government over the frontier incident on Wednesday, when two Frenchmen were fired upon, says the Paris correspondent of the Times. M. Rene Delaitre, who was seriously wounded, is still in a critical condition.
An official investigation has established the fact that M. Delaitre was well within French territory when be was wounded.
A cablegram on Wednesday stated: An inquiry has been ordered into an incident on tho Franco-Italian frontier when two Frenchmen on holiday inadvertently crossed the border and were fired upon by Italian frontier guards. The Frenchmen immediately retraced their stops, but tho guards continued firing until they -were 250 yards inside the French frontier, where one of the pair, M. Reno Delaitre, a medical student, was seriously wounded. Empty Italian cartridge-cases are alleged to have been found 25 yards inside French territory.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23085, 9 July 1938, Page 15
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