Pencil President Attacked
AUSTIIAT.IAN AND NX CAMUS ASSOCIATION. PARIS, July 14, M. Millerand wiis' fetul-'niiig from the Great Review in celeliratiotl of July the fourteenth. Hi.s ear entered the Avenue Mnrtigny preceded by two police ears, and followed by a squadron of mounetrl Spain's, It was probably this arrangement which led Bouvet to believe the President was in the second of the two leading cars. Immediately he fired, he tried to run away, but a cyclist policeman ran into his legs, while the other police found difficulty in rescuing him from the crowd which wanted to lynchhim. M. Millerand, on arriving at the Klysee, congratulated M. Nandin on his escape. The latter replied smilingly, “I have just received by baptism of fire in Paris 1” Bouvet declared be did not wish to kill M. Millerand, but merely to create a sensation, and draw attention to the present situation of the proletariat. Two revolvers were found on him.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1922, Page 2
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