ATTACK ON M. BLUM
POLICE MAKE ARREST PARIS, February 14. Jean Lecomte, an insurance agent, has been arrested as the alleged assailant of M. Blum. He declared he was no longer attached to “Action Francaise ” or the Camelots Du Roi. On February 13 a band of Royalists, armed with loaded canes, attacked the Socialist leader, M. Leon Blum, and smashed his taxi windows. A fragment of glass severed M. Blum’s temporal artery, after which he was manhandled and had to be treated at the hospital.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22807, 17 February 1936, Page 9
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