ASSASSIN’S BULLET.

Grey River Argus, 17 July 1922, Page 5

ASSASSIN’S BULLET.

FRENCH PRESIDENT ATTACKED. HIS LUCKY ESCAPE. [A. and N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, July 14. Bouvet, an anarchist, attempted to shoot President Millerand whilst he was returning in a carriage to the Elvsoe Palace. The anarchist fired into the wrong carriage. He was roughly handled, and arrested. PARIS, July 14. Several official carriages were proceeding in a procession to Elysee Palace and when within a hundred yards of the Palace entrance, Bouvet, who belongs to a young revolutionary communist organisation, fired three shots /at the first carriage. The occupants

I were not hurt, but a bystander, a woI man, was wounded and sent to the / hospital. j President Millerand occupied the sei cond carriage. Bouvet is twenty-one years of age. He declared that it was his intention to shoot Millerand. The first motor car contained Naudin, the new Paris Prefect of Police. The scene of the occnrcnce was in the Avenue De Alarigny. (Rec. July 16, 5.5 p.m.) PARRIS, July 14. M. Millerand was returning from the Great Review in celebration of July the fourteenth. His car entered the Avenue Martigny preceded by two police cars, and followed by a squadron of mounted Spahis. It was probably this arrangement which led Bouvet to believe Ihe President was in the second of the two leading cars. Immediately he fired, he tried to run away, but a cyclist policeman ran into his legs, while the other police found difficulty in rescuing nini from the crowd which wanted to lynch him. AL Millerand, o.n arriving at the Elysee, congratulated Al. Naud in on his escape. The latter replied smilingly, “I have just received my baptism of fire in Paris! ” BOUVET’S OBJECT Bouvet declared he did not wish to kill Af. Alillerand, but merely to create • a sensation, and draw attention to the present situation of the proletariat. Two revolvers were found on him.