Arizona republican., 1919-12-20
IRISH V|CEROY
 AMbUSHED--HAS
 NARROW ESCAPE
Carefully Plotted Assault of Viscount French, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Fails of Success One of Many Assailants Slain in Exchange of Shots
IRepubiioan A. p. Leased wire1

DUBLIN, Dec. 19.-A determined but unsuccessful attempt was made today to assassinate Viscount French, lord lieutenant of Ireland.
 The attack evidently had been most carefully organized at spot in a mar row, winding road with high walls and hedges, affording the assassins good hiding place. One of the attacking party was killed and . detective seated with the chauffeur of the viceregaI car was slightly wounded in the hand. Niscount French was not injured Some distance away a policeman pa trolling his beat was shot in the ankle
 Both bombs and revolvers were used by the assailants, the number of whom is yariously estimated at from five to fifteen" The smaller number, however is considered more probable. The vice regal party fired on the assissins as they fled across the fields, but all es capped save the one man killed who was shot through the head.
 Viscount French had been visiting the counties. Boyle and Roscommon. and returned today by train at 1 o'clock. He alighted at the suburban station at Phoenix park, near the spot where, in 1882, Lord Frederick Caven- dish, chief secretary for Ireland ana Thomas H. Burke, his under secretary, were assassinated. The station is about a mile from the viceregal lodge.
 Were Carefully Ambushed.
 The ambuscade had been carefully planned, the assassins placing obstrue- tions in the narrow part of the road, hoping to compel the motor cars, in which the viceregal party was travel ing, to stop. Behind the hedges and walls, in favorable positions. they had stationed themselves for firing upon the lord lieutenant and his party.
 When the automobiles approached, revolverS were fired and bombs were thrown. The assassins evidently ex- pected Viscount French would be in the second car in the line. and at it most of the shots were aimed. He, however, was in the first car, into which only a few bullets penetrated. A shot, nevertheless, directed at the first car. struck the detective. who was sitting beside the driver, in the hand.
 Almost immediately the viceregal party opened fire on the ambuscaded men, who took flight on bicycles across the field. During this shooting one of the men, later identified as having fired directly at Viscount French's car, was seen to throw up his hands and fall. Several of his friends stopped and lifted the body, intending to carry it away, but they abandoned it when they found the man was dead
 Identify Dead Assailant
 Around the finger of the fallen man
 
 hand grenade, and in his pockets were two revolvers-one of Spanish make and the other an old German model. Also, there was found in his pocket a bank book which identified him as Savage, the clerk of spirit and proc cry dealer. employed in North Strand, Dublin.
 From this book it was ascertained that he had deposited a sum of money early in the day belonging to his em ployer The police hope. through this Identification, to track the mans as- socfates
 During the shooting, a police con- stable. patroling the neighborfood on a bicycle, was shot in the ankle.
 The affair lasted about half a min ute but during this time the firing from both sides was rapid.
 yiscount French proceeded immedi- ately to the viceregal lodge where he went out and searched the roads and fields in the neighborhood of the shoot ing They found some undischarged hand grenades in the vicinity. Vfs- count French received numerous tele- grams during the day, congratulating him on his escape. Among the first of these were messages from King George and Premier Lloyd George
 Attack Carefully Planned
 That the attack of Viscount French had been carefully and cooly planned is indicated by the fact that his as- sailants played hand ball at a public house near the scene of the shooting. Further evidence of this was conveyed by the fact that the assassins flung cart across the road at the scene of 1 the ambuscade, which stopped the
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