SIGNOR MUSSOLINI
SHOT BY ENGLISHWOMAN. SLIGHT WOUND INFLICTED. ITALIAN CROWD ANGRY. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received April 8 10.5 a.m. ROME, April 7. While Signor Mussolini was leaving the International Congress surgery an elderly woman fired a revolver almost point blank, wounding him slightly in the nose. Signor -Mussolini was quite calm and immediately gave directions with a view to preventing a disturbance.
The woman was, with difficulty rescued from the incensed crowd and taken to prison. Siie is an Englishwoman named Violet Albina Gibson.
The news of the attempt on Signor Mussolini spread rapidly throughout the city and caused profound indignation among all sections of the populace, especially the central district. Feeling ran high, and a number of young people marched to the offices of the Opposition newspaper Mondo, where they violently protested and damaged the plant. The authorities immediately issued strict orders to suppress excesses.— Reuter.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 109, 8 April 1926, Page 7
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