BRITISH BRIGADIER SHOT BY WOMAN
LONDON, Feb. 10. The commaner. of Ihe 13lh Britis.i: Infantry Brigade, Brigadier R. W. M de Winton, D.S.O. ay d bar, was assassinated in Pola today. Tlie woinan was Maria Pasquinelb. She is reportod in a commuuiquo i.ssueT by Allied headquarters to bo an Italian from Milan. The communique said tlrat while Ihe brigadier was inspecting the. guard at Pola headquarters Pasquinelli came Upbehind him and fired three shots ar point-blank rangc. She fired a fourth sliot, which wounded a membe. of the guard. She dropped the gun and made no attempt to escd^O.Brigadier de Wintc n Avas rushed to hospital, but oue of tlie bullets had struclc him nefir the lu.art and he was dead 011 arrivaT. His wife and two-months-old baby were in Pola when tlie shooting occurred. An Italian news agency sav: a corporal of the Allied civil -police . was killed and another poiieeman serioiisly injured yesterday during ',n attack with sub-machineguns and hand'grem ades on the Allied Militaty Gqyern ment headquarters at Goineno, / near Gorizia.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 February 1947, Page 6
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