SHOOTING OUTRAGE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 217, 17 October 1914, Page 14

SHOOTING OUTRAGE.

PROMINENT ENGLISHMAN INJURED. TURKISH ASSAILANT ARRESTED. By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright. (Received October 17, 10 a.m.) BUCHAREST, October 16. A Turk named Pachil Assam fired four shots at Mr Noel Buxton and his - brother Charles who were motoring in Bucharest, with GueschofE's boh, to attend the King of Rumania's funeral. Mr Noel Buxton was shot through one lung, and his brother slightly wounded. The assailant was arrested. [Mr Noel Buxton is an authority on Balkan affairs, and the affairs of the "Near East" generally, his publications include '' Europe and the Turks,'' and "With the Bulgarian Staff," this last work being a record of the Balkan fi ar. He has been M.P. for Norfolk since 1910, and was Chairman of the Balkan Commission, and several other important bodies. He acted as A.D.C. to his father, Sir T. Fowell Buxton, when he was Governor of South ■ Australia in 1896. He was .born in 1869, and educated at Trinity College. Cambridge. He has travelled much in - the Near East, and interested himself in Macedonia. His brother Charles was private secretary to his father when Governor of South Australia. He fcas been principal of the Morley College for working men and women, first president of the South London branch of the Workers' Education Association, and Liberal M.P. for Mid Devon, 1910. He is the author of several political works and a book on Turkey during the revolution.]