THE FRENCH PREMIER

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 127, 22 February 1919, Page 7

THE FRENCH PREMIER

GENERAL CONDITION GOOD ■ i ...■ ■ • ' 1 —: —~ -i . FURTHER DETAILS OF THE; ATTACK . By Telegraph-Press Aesooiation-Copyright Paris, February 20. ', An examination under the X-rays shows that "the : bullet entered M. Clemenceau|s lung. The patient's general * condition is good; ; 31. .Clemenceau has sent ,a message to Mr.' Lloyd George, wi:ying:"l am doing very "well." The ' assailarit is a working man; ; a Syndicalist. _ He confessed that lie con- '[ fiidered M. Clemerice.au a daiigerous maji ' for Europe, arid had intended for a long time to kill him.—Aiw.-N.Z.' Cable Assn. Fuller —details of the 'attack on M, _ Clemenceau show that he was driving in the street when the would-be assassin sprang from a public < conveyance, and fired five tiniest Only one shot hit the Premier. Vl'he police seized the assailant, but not before lie fired two shots at them, wounding two. The crowd would havo. {jiveu him. a ; bad .time had not .the,.' police:-,removed/liini-,- quickly. . The'Premier's'chauffeur was' .' slightly wounded. Cottin is a native of Compiegiie; The physicians announce that J[. Clemenceau was hit in the posterior part of. the right shoulder. The wound is a penetrating one," without a visceral lesion. The patient's general and local condition is perfect.—Renter.