ASSASSIN FAILS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 665, 16 November 1909, Page 5

ASSASSIN FAILS.

VICEROY'S PERIL. BOMBS THROWN AT LORD AND LADY MINTO. dm INTERCEPTED BY, A SABRE. (fly Teleeraph —Press Association,—Copyright.) (Reo, November 15, 0.10 p.m.) Calcutta, November IS. An unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the Viceroy, tlio Earl of Minto, nnd Lndy Minto, was made nt Ahmodabad, a nailed city of British India, 310 iniles north of Bombay. Mliillos Fall to Explode. Lard and Lady Minto, uho wore on a vioit to Ah'inedabad, wore being driven from the railway station to the tonn. As they neared the Eivipur gulo p, Hindu in the denso crowd was 6e>m to be throwing missiles. They proved to bo tiro bombs. A sergeant of $ho Inniskilling Dragoons who was riding alongsido the carriage cloyerly intercepted the first bomb with his sabre. The second ono hit the jemadar (who was hplding an umbrella" over Lady Minto), and fell harmlessly to tho gTound. The soil was bandy, which fact explains tJio failure of the bomb to explode. ■ x The Yioe-Rcgal ' party were quite unmoved, and the Carriage drove on, somploting the prearranged drive' through the city. Experimenter's Hand Shattered. Subsequently a sooner picked up ono of the bombs,and broke it against a car. The explosion Shattered, his hand. The other bomb, unexplodod, was found in tho Game yicinity. Bqth bombs were of coconut pattern, and contained picrio acid. After tho outrage special precautions were taken to aafpju'ntd the Viceroy und his party. Inquiries did being vigorously prosecuted. OUTRAGE WIU.~NOf~CHECK REFORM. BUT' WILt INCtm EEPBESSION, . <Eec. November 15, 1135 p.m.) Calcutta, November 15. Lord and. Lady Minto have arrived at Baroda, wheri the <3p,ekflar warmly welcomed theffl. '

London, November 18. "The Times" remarks that the attempt to assassinate the Viceroy, than who no man worked harder, on behalf of reform in India, "will evoke throughput tho Umpire a feeling of profound hofj&r, , mingled with intense relief at the failure of th,o plat, Doqbtlcee, tlio Anarchists hoped by striking at the heAd of the Government to produce sttch a feeling of insecurity amopg all th,o members and officials of thut Qqvernment aa would tend to paralyse tho Administration. In this, if the tion had succeeded, they would have been disappointed, nor Dan any suoh menace cause Britain to, waver in £he execution of reforms; but that these, iilono will not stop, sedition, and that ,they must bo aooompnniod by tho most stringent repression of so-called political mmo, is made dearer than ever by thie latest outrage. ,.