STRUCK ON JAW

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11125, 7 February 1930, Page 5

STRUCK ON JAW

MEXICAN PRESIDENT INJURED SIX SHOTS FIRED BY WOULDBE ASSASSIN. United Prcsa Abbii. by El. Tel. Oopyritrbi MEXICO CITY, Feb. 5. Pascual Ortiz Rubio was wounded in the jaw by a would-be assassin, who fired on him a few hours after being sworn in to-day as President. Six shots were fired. The President was> grazed, and his little niece, Ophelia Ortega, was slightly wounded. A bystander also was hit. The assailant was arrested. The attempt was made as the President was leaving the national palace. In his inauguaration address the President pledged the Government to live years’ hard work for the common people, terming the workers and peasants “the hope ol Mexico’s restoration.” • Conservative, or even moderate, men and systems were impossible because the country’s heart and soul were intent oil the radical work of restoring to the race its heritage. r I be Government would be “entirely revolutionary.”

PRESIDENT NOT SERIOUSLY I XJ UR'ER. WIPE AND NIECE GRAZED BY BULLETS. SEVEN ADDITIONAL PERSONS ARRESTED. IN DIG N ATION THRO U G HOU T COUNTRY. united i'ren# Ascii .by El. Tel. Coiiyiicm (Received Feb. G, O.Go pm.)

MEXICO- CIA, rob. 5. The Moxiqau autlioiuues believe that the attempt on The *.R President Rubio is part ui a aidespread plot. Uu orders from the Departinen i of the interior, seven additional persons lntve been arrested. Their identity was not revealed.

President Rubio was not seriously mimed, and the slug lias been removed irom the lelt jaw. im; president's wile meco military aide and a bystander were grazed by other bullets, when the youth, presumably a, partisan ol A ascuiiceilo s clothed” in black, bred six shots into Rubio’s automobile before the National Palace. The assassin stubbornly ret used to talk, .and was placed under heavy guard. The accomplices ol the assassin, one ol wnom is a woman, attempted to escape. Cycle policeman caught the youth, who wore Catholic insignia to escape detection. An indescribable impression oi regret is visible everywhere among citizens, who earlier in the day were in the best of humor at the peacelul and, orderly manner m which President Rubio assumed olliee. Representatives of all political factions express disgust at the cold blooded attempt to murder. Seven persons were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to assassinate.

United Press Assn, by El. Tel- Gouvrinht (Received Feb. 0, 10 p.m.) MEXICO CITY, Feb. -3. A close censorship was immediately established. ASSASSIN REVEALS IDENTITY. FOLLO WEE OF DEFEATED P K ESI DENIT A L CAN DIDATE. CONFESSION OF 'WIDESPREAD PRUT. United Prea« Assn, by El. Tel. Oonyrijbl (Received Feb. G. S.2(J p.m.) MEXICO CITY, Yob. G. It is authoritatively reported that the assassin admitted to AA'ar Secretary Amare, that be is Miguel Fiores, aged twenty-two, a student rrrid a follower of Vasconcellos, the defeated anti-re-electionist Presidential candidate. He states that tin-Vaseo-nceilistas hatched a plot to kill President Rubio, and Ins entire Cabinet and ex-President Por.. tes Gil, produce Governmental chaos, and seize control. The police are watching closely for further trouble, the exact seriousness of which they are unable to ascertain as vet.