EMMANUEL ENDANGERED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 68, 15 March 1912, Page 5

EMMANUEL ENDANGERED.

ITALIAN SOVEREIGN SHOT AT IN THE STREET. THREE INEFFECTUAL SHOTS. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Romo, March 14. King Emmanuel was leaving the Palace to attend the Humbert memorial service in the Pantheon, when a man fired several shots at him. Fortunately they missed. The man was arrested. REVOLVER SHOTS FROM BEHIND A PILLAR. AN OFFICER INJURED. (Received 15, 9.40 a.m.) Rome, March 14. The King and Queen were driving in a closed carried and were passing along the Via Lata when a man, sheltering behind a pillar opposite the Palazzo Doria, fired three shots from a revolver. He missed the carriage, but wounded Major Lang, who was commanding the escort. Lang fell from his horse shot through the neck, hut the wound is,not serious. Lang’s horse was wounded hy the third shot. The 'assailant is Antonio Dalba, aged • twenty-one, who is a typical Apache. The crowd almost lynched him before lie was rescind by the police. Dalba declared that he was an individualist and anarchist, and had no accomplices in the crime, which was a protest against the organisation of society. Their Majesties visited Major Lang in the hospital, and a vast crowd accorded them an ovation.

THE KING’S CONGRATULATIONS

(Received 15, 9.40 a.m.)

London, March 1^

King George has telegraphed congratulations to King Emmanuel on his escape.