Show a 44 t 1 Il Se A ATTACKS ATTACK'S IT ACKS PREMIER BRIAND PARIS Nov 21 Imposing 1 Imposing national ceremonies in tho Garden In connection with tho dedication W ot 1 a statue erected to the memory of Jules Ferry the French statesman were marred by an au assault upon Premier Briand who while walking with President was struck twice in the faco face by by a Royalist The premier was not seriously hurt The Tho crowd which had gathered In the garden set upon pon the premiers premier's assailant I and determined intervention by the Immediate Im Im- mediate republican guards saved him from being beaten to death The incident occurred at the conclusion of the exercises which were attended by thousands President Fallieres 3 1 I Briand and tho other ministers were walking towards the tho gateway when a aman aman aman man broke through the thC guards that lined the road leaped to M. M BrIand's side and raising his clenched fists high in tho air brought them with full force orco upon the premiers premier's face M. M Briand reeled under the blows but did not fall faH As friends rushed up to assist him he cried I am all right we must protect my assailant Crowd Attacks Assailant The very ery audacity of the assault rendered rendered rendered ren ren- dered the crowd momentarily speechless but a shout of anger and cries of kill him arose quickly from all sides as as men fought their way to lay hands' hands upon the assailant e t He tie was badly injured before the guards urged on by tho the premier succeeded in rescuing him The man was taken before before before be be- fore a magistrate and gave ave the name of ot Lacour He said he was a member of the executive executive executive tive committee of the Cam lots Du DuRo Ro Rot Roi Roian an organization of voun Royal Royal- and that thit he wished to strike strike- at atthe atthe atthe the republic in the person of or Briand The Du Roi Rol met last night and unanimously elected Lacour vice- vice president of the association In token of th their ir sympathy and admiration of his act The statue to M. M Ferry Perry was erected by bythe bythe bythe the public school children of France and the colonies two millions of which each contributed 1 I cent The ceremonies while honoring M. M Ferry FelTY as as a statesman and of the colonies especially honored him as father of the public schools of France A golden book bool containing the names of the two million subscribers was was' placed in ina ina ina a receptacle beneath the statue There was a great procession of school children and orations were delivered red by Premier Briand Maurice Faure minister of pUblic public pub pUb- lic lie Instruction and other noted public men M. M Briand hailed Ferry as a great patriot like Gambetta and Waldeck- Waldeck Rousseau |