VINDICTIVE ASSAULT
j. IN LEAGUE SESSION ROOM. PREMIER’S FACE SLAPPED. I (Received 2 p.m.) GENEVA, June 10. M. Betlilen, the Hungarian Premier, was the victim of an assault by a ! Hungarian who burst into the room where the League holds session i and sharply slapped M. Bethlen’s face, shouting: "That is on behalf of the Hungarian nation! ’ ’ The Italian delegate rescued M. Bethlen from his assailant. The latter was arrested. He is named Dejusth, and he is secretary of the Hungarian Republican Party. He obtained a ticket of admission as a journalist, declaring when arrested that he “wanted to brand 'a criminal.’’— Reuter. I
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Northern Advocate, 12 June 1926, Page 5
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104VINDICTIVE ASSAULT Northern Advocate, 12 June 1926, Page 5
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