M. CLEMENCEAU.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15000, 22 February 1919, Page 5

M. CLEMENCEAU.

"A FAVOURABLE BULLETIN

BULLET LODGED IN THE LUNG

DETAILS OF THE-OUTRAGE

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

Paris, Feb. 20.

M. Clemeneeau is in very good spirits. He sent a to Mr Lloyd George saying: "1 am doing very well."

The assailant is a working man and a Syndicalist. He confessed that he considered M. Clemeneeau a dangerous! man to Europe and had intended to kill him for a long time. Fuller details show that M. Clemeneeau was driving in the streets, when: his would-be assailant sprang from a' public conveyance and fired live times. Only one shot hit the-Premier. The police seized the assailant; but not before he fired two shots at them, wounding two. The crowd would have given him a bad time had not the police removed him quickly. The Premier's chauffeur was slightly wounded. j

Cotlin is a native of Compiegne. Ine physicians announce that M. Clemenceau was hit in the posterior part of the right shoulder. The wound |is a penetrating one, without visceral lesion. The patient's general local con-j jdition is perfect. '

X-ray examination shows, that the bullet entered M. Clemeneeau\s lung The patient's general condition is good