COOLNESS UNDER FIRE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 88, 14 April 1913, Page 5

COOLNESS UNDER FIRE.

SAVES BY HORSEMANSHIP. A POINT-BLANK ATTACK. '■■".. [(Received 135 p.m.)' ~ MADRID, April 13. King Alfonso presented their colours to a regiment of recruits. He was returning at a walking pace, when Alegre, quitting the front of the crowd, darted forward and seized the bridle of the King's horse, flourishing a Browning pistol. King Alfonso,-with his usual admirable coolness, realising the position, with a euddeu pull of the bridle, raised his horse's head at the moment Alegre fired. Thanks to the King's wonderful horsemanship only the horse's chest was hit. A policeman threw ami seized Alegre, and deflected two other shots. ' A dozen people were injured in the ensuing stampede. King Alfonso had an enthusiastic ovation:after his escape. . " King Alfonso hae only just recovered from an accident sustained on the hunting field, when he was unconscious some •time, as the result of a Wow on the head from nn opponent's mallet.. His life was first attempted in Slay, 1906, when on the day of his marriage an attempt was made to kill the King and Queen with a bomb. The attempt failed, but several persons is the crowded streets were killed. The assassin committed suicide when on -the point of arrest. Last year Senor Canalejas, Premier of Spain, was assassinated' in the streets. - .