SHOTS FROM CROWD
THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT IN PORTO RICO CABINET MINISTER AND WOMEN WOUNDED SAN JUAN, July 26. Two people are dead and 20 wounded as a result of the attempt to assassinate Major-General Blanton Winship, Governor of Porto Rico, Several Cabinet Ministers - and women are among the wounded. The crowd numbered 100,000, from which came a fusillade of shots which bespattered the reviewing stand, killing an officer of the National Guard and wounding three Porto Rican officials. The police then fired on the crowd, killing one of the assailants and wounding many onlookers. The police later announced the arrest of a second assailant. A third was declared to have escaped.
Porto Rico was ceded by Spain to the United States by treaty in 1898. It is east of Haitia. The island has a population of 1,700,000, and has representative Government, with the executive power held by a Governor appointed by the United States.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1938, Page 5
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154SHOTS FROM CROWD Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1938, Page 5
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