A BOMB OUTRAGE
M. MERLIN’S LIFE ATTEMPTED. SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED. Press Association—-By Telegraph—Copyright. PEKING, June 20. Tho French community at Canton gave a banquet to M. Merlin (Governor-General of Indo-China and French Trade Envoy) at tho Victoria Hotel. During the dinner an unknown Chinese bombed tho party. M. Merlin was uninjured. M. P. ds Maretz (manager of the General Silk Importing Company of Now York) and the wife of M. E. Rougeau, of the Banque. Indo-China, were lulled. M. H. G. Gorin, a silk merchant, and M. Pellettier were mortally wounded. Five others were seriously injured. At. Merlin’s aide-de-camp was slightly wounded. Tho assailant escaped.—Reuter. TOTAL OF FIVE DEATHS. PEKING, June 20. Two French residents have succumbed making five deaths as a result of the attempted assassination of M. Merlin at Canton.—Sydney Sun Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19205, 23 June 1924, Page 7
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