Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1921-10-20
AMERICAN AMBASSADOR
AT PARIS HAS NARROW
ESCAPE FROM A BOMB
Package Purporting to be Perfume
ExplOdes--Valet "Wise" And
Hurls 1t Through Window

| >Nh NFtF Ju~t ~ thir ttthF h~''HiAh~ A"'
stairway preparatory 70 entering Her
riek's suite. blanchard came running ont
a. the ambassador reached the top. ~
bomb exploded ani | am HIT the valet
shouted
Blanchard then collapsed and was ear
ried down stairs.
The ambassador motorrd immediately
e. the Hotel Crilnn to ask General Perish
ing the best thing H. a.. and the prcfect
Of police If police was summoned
The bomb is believed by the police to
have been sent by French communists
as protest against the conviction of TIVE
communists III the United States charged
with murder II j. said the dcadliest -
explosives We're used according ~ the
prpfect
The strength II the explosive j. shown
BY the fact that the hath room was
wrecked that much damage was done in
the bed room and that seven fragments
went through thick steel wardrobe
while others made deep dents in the
doors of metal cabinet.
Ambassador Herrick's first thought
was to ignore the matter. bnt General
IperShing and others advised him ~ make
the .filll details public because ~ the pos
sibility ~ other bomb outragps The
prefect accompanied hy che attorney
general ~ France. came e. the hotel.
and shortly afterward went with the ann
bassador 10 the latter's home. The pre-
feet made the announcement that 5000
police and detectives would begin at once
searching inquiry and thar probably
there would b. numerous arrests among
known communists.
President Nillerand was among the
first 10 congratulate the American am
bassador on his esrape lie sent his
personal representative to convey con
gratulations In the name ~ the pepplr "
France that the ambassador had not
been hurt. and to assure Iferrick that the
outrage was deeply resented hy every
Frenchman worthy of the name and that
the greatest efforts would to- made a.
apprehend the guilty
Premier BRAND. leon Bourgeois ami
many members of the diplomatic corps
sent similar messages. and throughout
Paris the most intense Indignation l.
expressed az the attack on the amhas-
sador
Fierrirk had refused a. take seriously
scores Of letters he received protesting
against the conviction IL two alleged com
mnnists in the United States for murder.
S"me of these we're politely phrased but
others made open threats 10 get the am
bassador." and blow up the embassy
The thing which Immediately concerned
the ambassador most was the fact that
the bomb had smashed several gifts which
his daughterin-law and grandson had
presented H. him Oh his birthday. October
%.
IIerrick was anxious that al other
American embassies ~ informed as soon
as possible of the tragedy 50 as % pre-
vent the possibility ~ similar outrages III
ease the explosion was part of n c"nceR
ed plot against American officials N
Europe a. was suggested in one quarter
The embassies in London. Brussels. Mad
rid and Rome were Immediately Informed
hy telegraph.
A. typical ~ the campaign the com
mnnist press has been conducting for the
last fortnight IL connection with the con-
viction ~ Saero and Nanzrtti. the two
communists. the following appears IN the
Journal ~ People:
"a machine 80 powerful as America
cannot be fought with wandering words
and party manifestations we need some
thing else. What must b. done: Here
n m idea I.rt every reader write ~
Ambassador Herrirk We protest against
TIE Judicial error which IL about ~ Kill
two innorents. Pardon Sacco aud Van
zcit' Your letters will bring un-
hrarahlc remarse to Americans: the lives
of Sacco and Nanzetti are no longer in
The hands VI American Justice hut III
YOURS "
NJ Charhin. editor ~ rTIumaniti the
communist official organ concludes his
editorial:
In reply to the multiple resolution
passed and the letters and telegrams
which the French workers organizations
in Paris has put ~ to the present ans
wered tiothing Ss,ch iElenre implies
that the official world ~ the United
States is powerless before the universal
conscience T. Justify the execution ~ two
/ innocent men. Let Us therefore raise our
protest more and more vigorously and nm
animously in favor of the unhappy men
who have only few days to live unless
the proletarinns 81 the world come to
their help"