Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-09 | Page 1 | Machine Gun Mishap Cause of Fatalities

MISHAP GAUSE : . OF FATALITIES Operator Intends to Fire Onlj jH One Cartridge, When Belt Is Exploded j BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE ' EMBARRASSES FRANCE United States Interested as Observer Than as an Active Participant FRANKFORT. April 8. (By tht Associated Press.) Assertion tha there was no intention to fire a ma- ' chine g.un Into a crowd here Wcdncs-day, Wcdncs-day, and that the Incident was rcallj a mishap. Is made by a French office) IH who witnessed It. Fear on the pan IH of a French soldier that tho crowd Intended to rush tho patrol In tht street led to the tragedy. 1 IH This man, it is declared, put a bell IH of cartridges into the gun for the pur- 1 IH pose of firing one shot to disperse tht crowd. The explosion of the gun. however, caused the soldier In charge of It to lose his head and the wholt belt was fired. Inspection of the thirty-six machlnt guns brought to Frankfort by Frcncn Troops has been made, and it Is said none of them was found defective oi to show a tendency to fire upon the insertion of the cartridge belt. Confirmation Lacking'. I Inquiry has failed to obtain con- I flrmatlon of a report given out at tht mayor's office that a woman and girl were struck by revolver shots fired last night from the windows of the IH Imperial hotel, where the French havt established their headquarters. The ban on the publication of news papers was rerioved today, and the will not be subject to censorship, tht I French officers declare, if they re-fralu re-fralu from printing articles tending tc incite the people to disorder. VM A press bureau has been established by the French, and in It is hung a picture of a ruined French village. This picture bears the caption: "Gcr-many "Gcr-many has ravaged France. oo