FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE MURDEROUS ATTACK ON LADY FLORENCE DIXIE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3646, 20 March 1883, Page 3

FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE MURDEROUS ATTACK ON LADY FLORENCE DIXIE.

NO MORE AVAR VESSELS TO BE

SENT TO MADAGASCAR.

INCREASE OF THE POLICE FORCE

IN LONDON BY .500 MEN

THE SOCIALISTS IN FRANCE

THE LEAGUERS IN AMERICA REPUDIATE CONNECTION WITH

EXPLOSION* IN LONDON.

LONDON.

March 10

Full particulars are now to hand regarding the attack on Lady Dixie. She Avas walking in the grounds of her residence on the Thames, when her assailants made a desperate attack on her Avith daggers. The weapons twice penetrated her clothing, and the corset alone averted fatal wounds. Her hands are cut, but otherwise she is not injured. As she Avas struggling Avith her assassins she avus OA-erconie Avith terror, and fainted away and fell to the ground. Two favorite clogs avlio Avere AA-ith her then stood over her body, and kept the assassins at bay, ancl finally drove them off. Lady Dixie has lately published letters denouncing the Leaguers, and describing a recent visit Avhich she made to Ireland.

The Government have announced in Parliament that it is not intended to send anymore Avar vessels to Madagascar, it being considered that H.M.S. Dryad, hoav there, Avill suffice to Avateh British interests.

Sir AVilliam A r cnion Harcourt, the Homo Secretary, announced in the House of Commons to-day that orders had been given for the increase of the metropolitan police force by five hundred men in order to provide for the increased protection of public buildings. In the appeal case Boyd versus Chamberlain, tho demurrer to the plaintiff's pleas have been allowed by the Court of Appeal.