NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ANOTHER most dangerous incident has occurred near Rao in the Vosges, upon the Franco- Gertnan frontier. According to French accounts, a local banker took a party of friends out to ehoot in his woods on September 24th, and was leading them to a place fixed on for lunch, when they were fired on three times by a soldier named Kaufmann, who was aiding a party of German gamekeepers. The first shot missed, but the second brought down a young officer of dragoons named Wangen, and the third a beater named Brignon, employed as a workman in a neighbouring brewery. The officer is not dead, but his leg will, it is believed, require amputation; while the beater, after being dragged a few yards, died after a short delay in great agony. The banker and his party declare positively that they were never on German ground, and that they were not challenged; but the Germans deny this, alleging that when the shot was fired, Brignon was on German Boil, though he died within French territory, and that Kaufmann's challenges must have been heard and neglected. This is the story told by the soldier, who adds that he took the party for poachers, and that his orders were, if poachers would not obey his summons, to fire at once.
