Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-05-30
CLASHES ON FRONTIERS
Frequently Occur Among the Govern.
ments Of Europe.

Frequently Occur Among the Govern.
ments Of Europe.
German territory touches on that OF
no fewer than seven countries, two OF
which, France and Russia, are far
from friendly. Just at present the feel
ing between Germany and France is
anything but good, and the papers in
both countries have been full of RI
diculous little row between a party OF
German visitors to Nancy and some
French students.
Nancy Is big French town close to
the Lorraine frontier. Lorraine, OF
course. was part of France up to the
France up to the Franco German war,
and feeling always runs high on that
border line. Over and over again there
have been rows in that district be-
tween French and Germans, and some
Of them great deal more serious than
this present one. ~
For instance, in September, 1906,
four young Frenchmen cycled across
the border to village festival at Jouy
on the German side. One of them had
a quarrel with German police officer,
who at once arrested him and lodged
him in the village lookup.
His three companions, hearing of
this. went straight to the Jail, broke In
and released their friend. The Ger
man gendarme came at them with his
sabre, but they beat his guard down
with their sticks, tripped him, tied him
up, and left him locked in his own
prison.
There have been cases Of shooting
across boundary lines. An Alsatian
who fought for France during the war
Of 1870 subsequently settled on the
French side of the frontier. Thirty
years after the war, when he was a
man Of so. he ventured for the first
time to cross to see his old home. He
was spotted by German frontier
guard and race took place for the
frontier.
In spite Of his 80 years the French
man won easily. but the German lost
his temper and fired twice at the
Frenchman. Out came the French
guards, buzzing like wasps, and If a
French officer had not managed to
stop them in time there would certain
ly have been bloodshed. .... ,.,.. ..
Shortly after this came another row.
The French were at their autumn ma
noeuvres, and some men Of the Thir-
ty-seventh regiment Of the line stole
out at night and wrote insulting re-
marks on the German frontier posts.
The Germans were furious, their am
bassador in Paris laid formal COM
plant and the whole Of the Thirty
seventh regiment was punished by
confinement to barracks. ..... ..
There is endless fighting on the Rus
so-German frontier. Smugglers Of both
countries are always trying to break
through at night, and the frontier
guards shoot at once. .@ -. .h
The same sort Of thing happens on
the Austro- Russian frontier. Only a
few months ago a curious incident oc-
Cured. A smuggler was crossing the
boundary near Czernowitz when he
was shot dead by Cossacks. His body
fell on the line, head In Russian terri
tory, feet in Austrian. So no one was
competent to deal with the body, and
for three days 1t lay, unburied, guard
ed by Cossacks and Austrians, until
telegraphic instructions could be OBJ
tanned from Vienna and st. Peters,
burg.
Bulgaria and Turkey very nearly
went to war in March, 1910, over a
frontier incident. A Turkish girl went
across to Rustchuk to do some shop
ping, and a bank clerk fell in love with
her. The feeling was mutual, there
were stolen interviews, and finally
Stefanoff, the clerk, crossed the border
one night and carried her off to his
parents house. Her father was furl-
GUS, and appealed to the Turkish min
lister to Bulgaria. The Bulgarian gov
ernment took the girl from Stefanofrs
home and lodged her In prison until a
decision was arrived at. The Turks
were so enraged that mob crossed
the frontier and there was heavy
fighting in which 81 men were killed
and so wounded.-London Chronicle.