The Archive · 1926

Incident on German Frontier

French C. O. Stabbed by a German Paris, Oct. 5.

Following the recent Franca-'German incidents in the Rhineland it is reported that a French non-joned officer was stabbed land seriously wounded at Neustadt by a German, It is alleged that there was no provocation for the The assailant is said to be named Ehrardt. He was formerly an officer in the German Army and has been decorated with the Iron Cross, Fe escaped in a motor-cycle, The German police have offered their services to the French military authorities and Ehrardt will: be tried by Court Martial by the Army:

The newspapers attribute the cident to the German nationalist agitation for the evacuation of the

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