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Show HUGO HAASE, GERMAN SOCIALIST HEAD, DIES BKRL.IN. Nov. 7. (By the Associated Press, i Hugo Haase, president of the Independent Socialist party, died this morning from wounds received October 8, when he was shot three times when entering en-tering the reichstag building. His assailant, an Austrian. Jaohn Ohann Voss. fired three shots, wounding him in the thigh, forearm and abdomen-Repeated abdomen-Repeated operation were performe!, cnl-mlnatln? cnl-mlnatln? In the amputation October 27 of his right lea the hone of which had been smashed by a bullet. Voss, whom he was prosecuting on a charce of extortion. was said to liave acted upon personal motives, although thers was a natiirat lend'rry to sok a political background for the ded. since Haase was about to deliver a sensational speech, cliarging tfco government with encouraging en-couraging the retention of German troops In the Baltic and with fostering attack upon radicals by "murder bureaus." |