ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21101, 8 February 1932, Page 9

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION

GOVERNOR OP BENGAL. WOMAN STUDENT'S CRIME. SENSATION AT CALCUTTA. HIS EXCELLENCY NOT HURT. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright-. (Received February 7, 5.. i p.m.) CALCUTTA. Feb. 6. An attempt to assassinate the Governor of Bengal, Sir I'. Stanley Jackson, was made to-day by a woman graduate of the Diocesan College. His Excellency was addressing a convocation at Calcutta University, when the woman deliberately fired four or five shots at him. Ito bent, low and was not hurt, the bullets striking the wall behind liirn. The assailant was lima. Das, aged 30. Sho hails from Chittagong. is an Anglican missionary student and was due for her degree. When the, woman was searched a packet ot' poison was found concealed 111 her clothing. Tho Governor continued his address after tho arrest of the woman.

Sir Francis S. Jackson was famous in his eurlii'r clays as a cricketer arid later as a politician and administrator. He wa? born in November, 1370, and is the youngest son of the first Lord Allerton. Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, lie captained the cricket elevens of his school and university, and later that, of Yorkshire. He played repeatedly for tho Gentlemen against the Players and in all-England teams, and was also a "plus-two" golfer. From 3900 to 1902 he served in the South African War as captain in the 3rd Royal Lanc;ister Regiment. In 191& lie entered Parliament as Conservative member for the Howdenshire division of Yorkshire. Appointed Financial Secretary to the War Office in 1922, lie gave up the post in the following year when he was chosen as chief agent °< the Conservative Party. In October, 1926, Sir Francis was appointed Governor of Bengal, in succession to the Earl of Lytton, taking up his duties in March, 1927. Calcutta gave him a most cordial welcome when ho drove in state to Government House on .March 27 for the installation eeremonv. His action in releasing Subhas Bose was welcomed in all quarters, and was hailed in Indian circles as an indication of the inauguration of a new policy in regard to other untried political prisoners. 'I he Swarajist leader, Sen Gupta, said he hoped the Governor would continue as lie had begun, "doing things that the preceding Government would not. do," and promised co-opera-tion if the action already taken was followed up.