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suite. Blanchard came running out
as the ambassador reached the top.
"A bomb has exploded and i am
hut" the valet shouted Thank God,
you weren't in the room"
Seeks Gen. Pershing.
Blanchard then collapsed and was
carried downstairs. The ambassador
motored Immediately to the Hotel
Crillon to ask Gen. Pershing the best
thing to do, and the prefect of police
was summoned.
The ambassadors first thought was
to ignore the matter, but Gen. Persh-
ing and others advised him to make
the full details public because of the
possibility of other bomb outrages.
The prefect, accompanied by the at
torney general of France, came to the
hotel and shortly afterward went
with the ambassador to the latter's
home. The prefect made the an
nouncement that five thousand po-
lice and detectives would begin at
onco searching inquiry and that
probably there would be numerous
arrests among known communists.
President Millerand was among the
first to congratulate the American
ambassador on his escape. He sent
his personal representatives to con-
vey congratulations in the name of
the people of France that the am
bassador had not been hurt and to
assure Mr.. Herrick that the outrage
was deeply resented by every French
man worthy of the name. and that the
greatest efforts would be made to
apprehend the guilty.
Premier BRAND. Leon Bourgeois
and many members of the diplomatic
corps sent similar messages. and
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dignation is expressed at the attack
on the ambassador.
Sequel to Letters.
Mr.. Herrick expressed the belief
that the explosion was sequel to
numerous threatening letters he had
been receiving from French commun-
lists because of the conviction OF two
communists in the United States for
murder.
This is the work of towards, who
are afraid to come out in the OPEN
he declared. 'and / hope it may mark
the end of such outrages against peo-
pie who are absolutely innocent of
things of which they are accused.
These outrages should cease. Any
reasonable man knows that neither
the embassy nor the American gov
ernment has anything to do with Sac
co and Canzetti; they committed
crime for which they must SUI
fer"
The ambassador said he would keep
an engagement for dinner with
friends in Paris. but smilingly re-
marked that he would be unable to
put on evening clothes, as most of
his wardrobe had been torn by frag-
ments of the bomb.
The thing which Immediately con-
cerned the ambassador most was the
fact that the bomb had smashed sew
eral gifts which his daughterin-law
and grandchildren lad presented to
him on his birthday, october 9. These
gifts were in a drawer of a table in
the bathroom, and they were the first
things which the ambassador sought
when he entered the wrecked room.
Mr. Herrick was anxious that all
the other American embassies be in
formed as soon as possible of the out
rage, SO as TO prevent the possibility
of similar outrageS in case the eXplo-
sion was part of concerted plot
against American officials in Europe,
as was suggested in one quarter. The
embassies in London. Brussels. Mad
rid and Rome were Immediately in
formed by telegraph.
Walter Blanchard, Mr.. Herrick's
valet, who was hit by fragments OF
the bomb, probably will leave the
American Hospital tomorrow. as his
Injuries have proved to be slight. An