THE VICEROY WOUNDED.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 11, 24 December 1912, Page 5

THE VICEROY WOUNDED.

BY AN ASSASSIN S BOMB. DURING THE STATE ENTRY TO DELHI. HIS ATTENDANT KILLED. [PRESS ASSOCIATION- -COPYRIGHT. ] Delhi. Dee. 23. An attempt was made to assassinate Lord Hardinge by means of a bomb during the State entry into the new capital. Lord Hardinge was wounded and an attendant killed. The Viceroy’s elephant procession left the station and was passing through Chandni C'hauk (Silver street) when a man on a housetop threw a powerful bomb which struck the Viceroy’s howdah, wounding him on the shoulder. An attendant who was holding an umbrella was killed. The Viceroy was taken to the hospital. Lady Hardinge is much shaken. LATER DETAILS. LORD HARDINGE DOING WELL. (Received 2). !).() a.m.) London, Dec. 23. A second attendant was wounded in eight places. The Viceroy, who was removed to the Vice-Rcgal Lodge, is doing well. His driver was uninjured. Many arrests have been made. The procession was resumed. Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson. K.C.R.. a member of the Governor-General’s Council, conducted the Durbar. FULL PARTTUI 1 XRS OF THE Ol TR \GF INTENSE Pl BLh INDIgN YTION (Received 24; 10.30 a.m.) London, Dec. 23. The great State procession to inaugurate the site of New Delhi was witnessed by enormous crowds. There were many decorations. The Viceroy and Vicereine occupied the same howdah. The weather was perfect.

While the procession was passing through the famous thoroughfare Chandaiehovvk. the bomb was thrown as described. The Viceroy, who was pale, was removed on an improvised stretcher to a motor car. The' Vicereine returned to the Vice-Regal Lodge. The. procession then reformed and the ceremony pjroceeded. The police surrounded the house and made several arrests. All the city outlets are guarded. There is intense public indignation. Lord Hardinge subsequently sent 1 message to Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson, saying that he was only slightly injured. iSir Guy Fleetwood Wilson read this aloud at the Durbar, and loud cheering ensued .particularly among :he chiefs. Ten thousand rupees reward are offered for the arrest of the culprit. The Viceroy was hit in three places in the back and one in the neck by fragments of the nieta'i A boy spectator was also killed. King George has sent Lord Hardinge a message of sympathy. THE NATURE OF THE M’OUND. (Received 24, 10.30 a.m.) Delhi, Dec. S 3. The Viceroy received a deep vqund four inches long, exposing the shoulder-blade and superficial wounds on the right hip and neck. The bomb was thrown from the office of the Punjab National Bank. : is believed the thrower escaped.

[Sir Charles Hardinge was appointed Governor-General of India in June, 1910, in succession to Lord Minto, whose term of office then exaired. Sir Charles was subsequently aised to the peerage with the title of Baron Hardinge of Penshurst. He was born in 1858. and was educated at Harrow and Trinity Co! lege, Cambridge. He entered the liplcmatic service in IbSO. and served in the Legations in Persia and St. ■’etersburg. From 1898 to 1903 he was Under-Secretary of Foreign iff airs; was British Ambassador at it. Petersburg 1904-1906, and was appointed Permanent Under-Secre-tary of Foreign Affairs 1906. whei ,-ffice he held until he went to India in 1910. .He is possessor of many Foreign Decorations, not the least amongst which is the Grand Cross of the German Order of the Red Zagle. ]