Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-22
TIGER FATIGUED;
TOLD
Tired by Receiving Visi-
tors, Clemenceau Sees
None Today
HE A AT PHYSICIAN
u. S. Commissioner Expresses
American Horror at Shoot.
ing of Premier
HE SNAPS AT PHYSICIAN

Paris, Feb. 22.-"Premier Clemenceau
Sc somewhat fatigued and will receive
no one today said Doctor Cautra. of
the medical STAFF attending Premier Gle
menceau. following the examination of
the Premier shortly after . o'clock this
morning.
He is absolutely forbidden to talk. "
Doctor Cautra added. His temperature
is 37.1 (centlgrade) and his pulse nor
NAL. r." (The centigrade temperature
Of ST. is approximately equivalent to
ss.7s Fahrenheit, which is about nor
mali
The doctors statement was understood
to be a synopsis of the official bulletin,
which. at $3.50 o'clock. had not been
issued.
Alexandra Millerand, ex-Minister of
War, was one OF Premier Clemcnceau's
earliest visitors today.
The Premier said NJ. Millerand
after his visit, lis rather more tired to-
day. You know he was a naughty boy
yesterday and o~verexerted himself. How
ever, his condition is generally salts
factory"
Saw Too Many Visitors
lHt 1TtT1ltT WAS anlP 10 rest we'll
during the night. Yesterday he saw
no fewer than forty persons. which the
doctors considered excessive for a man
OF his age with a bullet in his back.
but then NJ. Clemenceau is an arbitrary
gentleman who does exactly as he
pleases.
All the physicians agreed tina the
action of the Premier's lungs should
be reduced as much as possible. as
movement causes the edges of the
wound to rub against each other. The
only way of effecting this was an in
lection of morphine. which no one cared
to propose to the Premier, foreseeing
how he would receive the suggestion.
At last Doctor Laubry volunteered, says
the Petit Journal.
"Tiger" Snaps mt Doctors
He appealed to the Premier as a
brother doctor" but NJ. Clemenceau
sprang up, seized the physician by the
shoulders, and shouted What, What (!
Morphine, morphine! You want to
finish me? Are you in the pay Of the
B~olsheviki?'
Doctor Laubry threw up his hands
and said:
There you are. We want to give
your chest rest and you nearly burst
The official statement issued by the
subcommittee of the commission on the
International regime of ports, waterways
and railways, after its meeting yester-
day, follows:
At the opening of the session, the
delegate from the United States ex-
pressed the profound Indignation felt
by his country on receiving the news
Of the dastardly attempt made against
the president OF the Peace Conference,
M. Clemenceau, n expressed the
hope that he would recover very short
ly. The delegates OF all the other pow
ers Joined In their approval of the
IA sentiments Expressed by the American
delegate. NJ. Weiss. French delegate,
who was presiding. warmly thanked
the delegates.
The police continue work on the case
OF Emile Coffin. the assassin of Premier
Clemenceau. but so far have discovered
nothing to throw new light or his activi-
ties. They are en~deavoring to trace a
young man who called to see him at his
lodging house Tuesday night and who
was there once or twice before during
the last few weeks. His visits at
tracted the attention of the landlord,
Is Coffin never before had any visitors.
Dra9net for BoIsheviki
The landlord has been able to give a
description of him., which Is thought to
correspond with that oof a friend of
Cottin's, known as Michael" who is
alleged to have anarchistic leanings.' So
far the police a not discovered the
mans Whereabouts. nor have they found
where Coffin obtained the French pistol
he used when he fired upon the Premier.
The Matin says the search of homes
Of anarchists and subsequent arrests
have no connection with the Coffin case.
It asserts these measures mac been de-
cided upon for some time, the charge
against those under arrest being the
dissemination of Bolshevik propaganda