A Frontier Picnic.
The Barjg correspondent of the Daily News telegraphs :—A realty funny story comes from Alsace-Lorraine apropos of the passport regulations on the German frontier. The other day a family from Deutseh- * vr j' court were expecting for a party of relatives who were at a village a few miles over the bhider. Bat the German official, at the custom house insisted on having a passport, a thing which the French family had thought unnecessary for a few hours visit to a border village. At length they tu.tned back for a few yard? x-ranee and alighted, la thq -m^adwb’ifp l their Lorraine relatives, wh ! b, had seen their' retreat, had gojle’hdfiaei; and returned with knives, forktes, plates,- and glasaesand a hbi dinner. The cloth was laid across tlje frontier upon a patijh smooth grass, add a merry picnic held, each party sitting o° its' own soil. The German officials stood by the whole time, ready to a?r the strangers in case they oyqrstepped,’ tab imaginary line, blit they. Wore carteful not to do so. - ’ ' ' 1 ’
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 936, 7 February 1890, Page 4
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177A Frontier Picnic. New Zealand Mail, Issue 936, 7 February 1890, Page 4
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