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Show KILLED WHILE I ON VISIT 10 I ART GALLERY I Murder of President Culmination Culmi-nation of Serious Warsaw War-saw Riots J ELECTED ONE WEEK Purely Polish Citizens Claim ! Narutowicz Represented Radicals WARSAW. Dee. 16 (Ry the Assor elated Press) Gabriel Narutowicz, first president of Poland, was assinat-ed assinat-ed today while visiting an art cxhlbl- tlon. The assassination occurred exact) at noon The president was shot, and died a few moments later M Narutowicz was killed by an arl 1st named Niswadomskl. who fired 'three shots. Every shot took effect. Thi re have been continuous dlso:-Iders dlso:-Iders ever since President Narutowlca jwas elocted by the national assembly jone week ago today. There was tu- PglglgH . multous clamor growlni: out of hid j 1 unexpected choice to succeed Marshal s Pllsudskt, the battle between the rlv- IBPJ ul factions and the police resulting In four deaths and the injury to moro than 10 0 persons. President Narutowicz took over the supremo executive authority from Marshal Pllsudskl two days ago, the ceremony occurring at noon Thursday pBH at the Belvedere Palace, the official sMH home of tho president. piH The opposition to Narutowicz as first president of Poland came mainly from the nationalists representing tho ' purely Polish population, the mem- BHI ' bers of this party resenting the elec- tion of a man who the declared rep- PbPJ resented the non-Polish and radical piPJ elements. pBH The nationalists deputies after the PJPJ 1 lection announced officially that they pipj would refuse to support M. Naruto- pipj wlcz. in any cabinet appointment by him They asserted he was elected by pipj the votes of the Jews, L'kran :an.i. cn :- pipj mans and Russians, receiving only 15 pipj Polish votes, while 2-7 Polish votes were cast for Count ZamoyskL piPJ Under the constitution the speaker pipj of the house. Maclez Rataj acts as pipj president In case of the death of the pipj president, and is required at once to pil convoke the national assembly tu pil choose a new chief executive. BpH M Rataj was elected speaker a pBB week ago. and Is a prominent member pBH of the parly supporting former Prem- pBj liar 00 BSSSSfl |