THE ASSASSIN
Mr. H. W. Seaman, writing in the •'Sunday Chronicle" recently, stated that he had a list by no meana complete, bf fifty illustrious victims of assassination in the last forty years. It includes Shahs, Tzar?, Presidents, Geneials, Prime Ministers, Kings, Queens, an Emperor or two, a Sirdar, and a Viceroy. Not one of the assassinations took place on British soil. Mr. Se&man says: —"The last time I was. in Madrid, I was shown at least thirty spots at which statesmen had been murdered. In one square, I saw the marks made by the bomb that was •thrown at King Alfonso and his young English bride, and I remembered the horror that the outrage caused in England. Lisbon and Home are similarly pock-marked by memories of assassinations. Every one'of the assassins throwing his bomb, or firing his revolver, or lifting his dagger, had in his mind no honest hatred, but only an unreasoning lust for fame. They all failed. It is hard today to get to know their names."
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 71, 21 September 1933, Page 9
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170THE ASSASSIN Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 71, 21 September 1933, Page 9
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