An Unfortunate Incident.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12580, 29 September 1908, Page 5

An Unfortunate Incident.

French v. Germans

Press Apsociation.-Telcgrapli.- -Copyright. Received September 29, 8.42 a.m. LONDON, September 28. An ugly incident occurred at Caea Blanca, where recently 200 soldiers of the Foreign Legion deserted. Gendarmes saw five whom they recognised as deserters. They were brought, to the seashore by the Secretary of the German Consulate and Moorish horsemen in the employ of the Consul. When about to enter the boat to embark, in a Hamburg steamer, gendarmes arrested them, when a horseman interfered. He was" arrested, but later wae liberated". " German accounts state that the French Harbour Captain pointed a revolver at the Secretary and fiercely assaulted the horseman. I

The Cologne Gazette insists on firm action, since the gendarmes' conduct is absolutely illegal. The French press assert that several ot the deserters were not Germans.