SWITZERLAND'S POSITION.
MINISTER'S EMPHATIC STATEM i:.NT. WILL UNHESITATINGLY COMBAT VIOLATION OF TERRITORY. A. and N.Z. Cablo Association and Router. (Received November 27, 9.10 a.m.) BERNE, November 26. In the course of a speech the. Minister for the Interior said that the unity of all classes in the present, terrible crisis was necessary, as perilous times were ahead. He gravely warned the people of the possibility of a belligerent violating Swiss territory, owing to some unforeseen event. Whoever did this would be unhesitatingly combatted with the full strength of Switzerland's armed forces, even against manifest superiority, and struggle "would be prosecuted to the last! extremity.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12176, 27 November 1917, Page 5
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