FRONTIER TROUBLE
0 BRITISH AND BELGIANS LONDON. SEPT. 11 The Times Cologne correspondent/ reports the rescue of three German Syndicalists by Belgian cavalry from the custody of the British military police on the outskirts of Cologne. The British authorities ordered the German police to arrest, the three tro-uble-makers with a view to their deportation. A mob of several thousand congregated in front of the prison demanding their release, and the police urgently telephoned for reinforcements but before their arrival a Belgian officer with a cavalry escort crossed the frontier and ordered the men’s release placed them in a car and drove into the Belgian zone. The Belgians state that one of the arrested men is a Belgian employee.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 159224, 13 September 1923, Page 4
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118FRONTIER TROUBLE Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 159224, 13 September 1923, Page 4
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