GREFK OUTRAGE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19512, 10 June 1933, Page 22

GREFK OUTRAGE

HUNDRED SHOTS FIRED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, June 7. The Athens correspondent of “The Evening News” says that M. Venizelos’s only injury is a slight cut on the face from broken glass. Two other members of the bodyguard were wounded. Madame Venizelcs was hit on the leg four times. There were fifteen bullet marks on her clothing. Over 100 shots were fired, half striking the car. The assassins used dum-dum bullets. M. Venizelos had been repeatedly warned of a plot, but ignored the warnings, apart from engaging a bodyguard. THE ATTACK DESCRIBED. BRAVERY OF MADAME VENIZELOS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright ATHENS, June 7. M. Venizelos says that the occupants of a seven-seater car placed themselves between his own and his escorts’ car, and opened fire. “I took my wife in my arms and crouched in the floor. I asked her whether she was hit. She replied ‘No,’ but I later saw blood on the floor of the car. I ordered the chaffeur to proceed at full speed to Athens, but the assassins continued firing for three miles.”