CONSUL ATTACKED.
STUDENT’S ATTEMPT TO SHOOT ItOUM AN lAN MINISTER. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Julv 10, 1.55 n.m. ■ LONDON, July 9. The Roumanian Consul, M. Marcu Beza, narrowly escaped death in the Legation at Kensington, when a compatriot young student, whose .request for assistance was refused, drew a revolver and fired two shots point blank. The consul, by grabbing the revolver, deflected the aim, but the flash from the revolver singed liis hair. A desperate struggle followed, and the legation officials rushed to the consul’s assistance, but the student was tremendously strong, and it took five men to overpower him.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 July 1924, Page 7
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102CONSUL ATTACKED. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 July 1924, Page 7
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