M. CLEMENCEAU

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1944, 25 February 1919, Page 2

M. CLEMENCEAU

CONDITION COULD NOT UK BETTER. TO RESUME WORK ON MONDAY. Paris, Fell. 21. M. Clemenceau is expected to resume work on Monday. M. Clemenceau spent a short time in his garden to-day. The doctors state that his condition could not be better. They are. satisfied that although (he .wound is more serious than was at first supposed, the bullet will not be extracted, but will probably he encysted without complications. Paris, Feh. 22. M. Clemenceau slept for five hours, rose at six o’clock, dressed himself, and went for a walk. He breakfasted heartily. He is improving hourly. CONG RATULATIONS FROM COMMONS ON ESCAPE. London, Feb. 20. Thff Press Bureau slates (hat the Speaker telegraphed to M. Clemenceau as mouthpiece of the House: “1 offer you my sinceresl congratulations on your escape from an assassin's bullO, and express a fervent hope that you will shortly he restored for the sake of France and the Allies and the peace, of Europe, to the full exercise of your unrivalled powers.’’ WOUNDED THRICE. Paris, February 2(1. It transpires that M. Clemenceau was wounded thrice. Two minor cuts attributed to glass splinters are really duo to bullets. PREMIER’S FRIENDS ‘STILL ANXIOUS. London, Feb. 20. The Manchester Guardian states that M. Clemeneeau’s friends are anxious despite (he Premier's wonderful vitality, owing to his having undergone an internal operation in Hie spring of 1018, when the doctor gave him six monlhs to live. M. Clemeneeau on that occasion characteristically remarked: “That will, do,’’ meaning that the Allied offensive would then have done its work.