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Show BRITAIN AROUSED I BY ASSASSIN PLOT TO MURDER FRENCH t By FORBES W. FAIRBAIRN. Universal Service Staff Correspondent. .Special Cable 1 dspatch. I.m.VI.hiX. Per. The v Ibb-st p. nn-! lion in months was caused thicugn"iit i;rit am bv th- attempt to as.-.i. m; i e j I l-'leid Mm-slml Vbcotint Kronch. mrd lieu- I lemuit of Ireland, at Ac.n-wn staf.oiv. ! lnmlin. today. . nearlv a eorv or ;i-.-;,icm: who fired shots snto ;iuto-i I mobiV and hurbd nomb i-nfl h;ind ! m-ei-adeii to mak-; The job stir; and com- j i p'f IP I Ho'.h Lord ynd Uidy Kreach h-id a j ! nhr.-ic iloiiii e-- -ape, which is ci cdjl.. d lo j the arnv.u -'ph'ited sides of tlvir e;n Ian Alitcfher.on. chief fecrelary -or It- i land, pav.- :i few brief details o'' tae attack at-tack in the hou.-v of commons lips aster- noon. II" s:iid four humus Were thrown IHt the iiiaccin:- from b';ilind ri- hede. T::e I icerov's rulliLiry guan.'s ho media t.-ly j I irrne-l on the assailants, shooting one-j one-j dead 1 'i"'' w-:,s h'''-i" arretted. 'The lot .ers got awav on b'.cy.Mes. A lneetivi j named llley was shot in tb" hand whi,e attemptintr to dhs. liaru'e h;y revolver and auotiier puim-cloihes-man was woutided i bv ii'i lire. T-ie slain man was ideiili-1 tied bv tin- ii'ithoiities, MacP'nerson sai-I. ; carried two revolvers and a number of hand R,'vn:i les. "I "rei sure." added the chief socretnry for Ir-lare.l. "thai t: ' bouse and the country wmPd be glal to hfar that ItI : Kreuch esca pe-i uninjure i." Toniuht tne attack is the sole iopie of discussion rvfrywhere heie, and th.;re is ; intense speculation as to the pro'nable j coii-ettiiencos as tffe''Ulv the s;luM:o:, , i in lrelaii'i. which., b-r week-, has been threatening: to come to a iiead in a dra- math manner, ijnoeu A lexandra sent a message to nil iM'eiK'b congi atulating him on his . escape and expressing horror "at sucn u de'dorabb1 act."' ; ( King i leore wa s grea i ly concerned when infoi m'-d bv the Irish office of th j attack on Lord l-Yeuch. Jle immediately i summoned t'hief Secretary Jlacf hereon and ialer sent a congratulatory message j to t hti field marshal on thu lat tor's mi- raculoils scape. Secret a ry MacPhei'son informed Pre- I mier I Voyd b-or.e of the at tack whn 1 he entered tlie commons ibis afternoon. The premier h-iu a messaire to 1-or.i i Kreneh expressing raliiication that the J plot did not succeed. |