The luring of a Jewish merchant across the frontier into Germany, where he was immediately arrested by the German police, is being sensationally featured in the press here.
The merchant, Josef Kollinsky, had a creditor across the German frontier. The creditor invited Kollinsky to visit him in order to receive payment of the money due Kollinsky, but the Czech guard would not permit Kollinsky to cross the frontier without a passport.
Shortly thereafter, the German creditor arrived at the frontier, where he talked with Kollinsky, who absent-mindedly took several steps into the German territory. Plainclothes German policemen suddenly appeared on the scene and, surrounding Kollinsky, forced him, at the point of a revolver, to proceed further into German territory, where he was arrested.
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