Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1919 — SEE ANARCHIST PLOT [ARTICLE]

SEE ANARCHIST PLOT

ATTACK ON CLEMENCKAU LAID TO RUM. X-Ray Examination _ Show* Bullet Pierced Lung of the Aged French Statesman. ♦ Paris, Feb. 21. —Was the, attempt upon Premier Clemenceau’s life of bolshevik origin? is a question insistently asked here. The Matin recalls that a few days ago a Geneva newspaper announced that the bolshevlkl in Lausanne, Switzerland, were plotting against M. Clemenceau's life, and that txyo bolshevik! had crossed the frontier to carry out the plan. The Paris police, says the Petit Parisien, were warned some dine ago that a plot was brewing against the premier’s life.

A wife of a member of the French consular service, formerly stationed in Russia, it says, was in the Russian book store in the Avenue Gobelins a fortnight ago and overheard •» discussion which made her sure that an attempt against the premier was in preparation. This place is frequented by maximalists. The woman informed her husband of what she had heard and he notified the police, who assured him that the persons in question would be closely watched. The bullet which wounded Premier Clemenceau penetrated his lungs, it was revealed by the X-ray examination. This was officially stated. The radio examination is said to have shown that the bullet had lodged on top of the premier’s right rung and that the lung had been touched by it. After the X-ray examination had been completed Premier Clemenceau walked out on the balcony of his house, overlooking the garden.