WOUNDED PRESIDENT.

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18630, 7 May 1932, Page 6

WOUNDED PRESIDENT.

SENSATION IN FRANCE.

PROBABLY AFFECT ELECTIONS.

CONSCIOUSNESS RECOVERED. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received May 7, 12.45 p.m.) PARIS, May 6. The news -of the attack on the French President caused a sensation throughout France, and in consequence is likely to cause a shift of votes at Sunday’s second ballot towards the right, thus prejudicing M. Tlerriot in favour of M. Tardieu. Even if M. Doumer recovers, one •of his doctors states that he will be paralysed on the left side. The patient was conscious at eleven o’clock.

ASSAILANT ROUGHLY HANDLED.

REASON FOR THE OUTRAGE. DESIRE TO SECURE WAR. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received May 7, 12.25 p.m.) PARIS, May 6. Gonguloff, who is believed to be in- . Bane, was searchingly interrogated, and eventually admitted coming from Monaco specially to assassinate M. Doumer. He declares he knows he is going to be killed but he did his duty. Gonguloff, who served in the Russian Army in war time, is a poet and novelist. He declares that his object •in trying to kill M. Doumer was to compel France to declare war on the ;/ Soviet because Bolshevism had ruined the country. He carried two revolvers, also tablets with which he said he intended to poison himself. The President’s guard had the IgTeatest difficulty In controlling the angry crowd at the exhibition which attempted to lynch Gonguloff, but managed to get him into a limousine. He was heavily manacled, and drl- • ven to the police station amid cries of “Kill him!” “Give him to us!” The situation was so threatening '<6hat the chaffeur accelerated, knocking several of the crowd down. A huge crowd at the police station continued to clamour for his life. Gonguloff’s face was swollen from •blows by would-be lynchers.

GONGULOFF’S CAREER. DEPORTED FROM PRAGUE. AN UNDESIRABLE AGITATOR. (Received May 7, 12.55 p.m.) PARIS, May 6. Gonguloff Is aged 38. He is a docor of medicine. The police state that Gong-uloff’s group of Fascists number only twenty. He was deported from Prague as an undesirable agitator. The police have arrested his wife at Monaco. CONDITION NOT HOPELEBB. THIRD BLOOD TRANSFUSION. (Received May 7, 12.30 p.m.) PARIS, May 6. Doctors in the evening stated that as the shots had not touched the brain the case was not hopeless but manifestly it is most serious owing to loss of blood and the President’s age. A third blood transfusion was given late in the evening.