WHY FRONTIER CURVES.
Belgian King’s Gratitude to German Doctor. COLOGNE, March 26. It has just been revealed here hew the new map of Europe, drawn up after the war, was changed owing to the personal gratitude of the late King Albert of Belgium. Shortly before the war, while touring along the eastern frontier of Belgium, King Albert was suddenly afflicted with severe inflammation of the tonsils. A physician recommended an immediate operation by a German doctor near Aix la Chapelle, just across the frontier. King Albert presented the doctor with a handsome fee, and assured him that he would gladly do him a good turn in future if it were required of him. When the frontier was amended after the war, the line originally drawn would have placed the German doct r's home in Belgian territory. The surgeon then appealed to King Albert, who, despite the intervening enmity of the nations, re-ieemed his promise, thus accounting for the present curve of the frontier leaving the surgeon's house and lands in Germany.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20274, 7 April 1934, Page 1
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