KING IN DANGER.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13310, 17 July 1936, Page 5

KING IN DANGER.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. EE XSA TI OX IX BUSY STREET (Extraordinary.) United Press Assn.— By Electric iVley» i4i —Ccpvrighx LON COM. July 16. An attempt appears to have been rrade on the King’s life at Hyda Park Corner but it was unsuccessful and a man was arrested arier a revolver had been knocked from his hand.

JOURNALISTS ARREST FOLLOWS

(Received 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, July 16. Eye-witnesses nearby saw in a second a man arrested and a revolver fall on the roadway. His Majesty’s escort then closed in to protect him immediately after tlie incident. The crowd wildly cheered when the King later left the Palace to go to York House. A Scotland Yard official statement says that during the return journey a mail pushed to the front of the crowd. Exactly what followed has not yet been ascertained. The revolver, which was loaded in four of the five chambers, fell to the roadway between the King and the troops following him. A further Scotland Yard statement says that the man is being charged this afternoon at Bow Street under the Firearms Act. Another eyewitness states that the man raised the revolver and a policeman immediately knocked it from his hand. The King then rode on, several times looking back at the pclice and the struggling man. CROWD GETS UGLY’. When the crowd , grasped that an assassination had apparently been intended. tilings looked ugly and several cried **\Vhy don’t they lynch him.” but tlie police lost no time in hustling off’ tlie assailant. NEWS SPREADS QUICKLY’. News of the atte.ir.pt passed with extraordinary rapidity through tincrowd and before His Majesty was halfway down Constitution Hill the rumour had reached as far as the Palace that His Majesty had been injured. Consequently the cheering was frenzied wnen he appeared unperturbed.

Accused is George Andrews Malum, a journalist who was remanded for eight days. Me stated that he did net want to hurt the King.