The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-20
ALL FRANCE
IS STIRRED
BY BOMBING
Arrest of Perpetrators Is
: Near, Newspaper
Declares.

Paris, Oct. 20.-United Press.)
The attempted assassination of
Ambassador Herrick led to uproar-
/ ious and indescribable scenes in
the French chamber of deputies
today.
! Deputy Mandel, henchman of
! former Premier Clemenceau, in a
fiery speech, attacked the police
and the department of justice for
| permitting the outrage to occur.
He also made a bitter attack upon
the communists and the socialist
Senator Escoff1er leaped at him
and struck him in the face.
For Is minutes the chamber was
in confusion with deputies shout
ing and battling.
When things quieted down, M.
Bonnevay, minister of justice, re-
ferred again to the bomb incident
and depIOred it in Strong terms
while the chamber cheered.
The attack upon M. Mandel by
Escoffler resulted not only from the
formers insinuations today but
from charges made in the chamber
Yesterday by Mandel to the effect
that the socialist deputy had tam
pered with the jury at trial of
communists.
Brest, France, Oct 20-United
Press. "A mob of 1000 Syndicat-
lists marched upon the American
| Consulate here today and smashed
the windows, singing the "lnterna-
tionale" and the Red Flag" The
police finally dispersed the crowd.
Brussels, Oct. 20.-(United Press)
The American embassy here was
closely guarded by police and de-
tectives today.
Demonstrations by Communists
yesterday, in which more than 200
persons created a disturbance in
front of the Embassy until they
were dispersed by the police and
fear of a possible bomb outrage
similar to that at Paris against Am
| bassador Herrick yesterday, led to
extraordinary precautions being
| taken.
London, Oct. 20-United Press.)
No necessity for extra precau-
tons at the American Embassy
here was seen by United States Of
| ficials today.
! Although threatening letters re-
| Iating to the communists sentenced
at Dedham, Massachusetts, have
| been received here it was be-
lieved anti-American demonstra-
| tions would be confined to the con-
| tinent
Paris, Oct. 2O.-(United Press. y
J The attempted assassination of Am
bassador Herrick stirred French
| officials, police and public to a
! countrywide man hunt today.
| Search for the perpetrators of
| the outrage, in which a small bomb,
! enclosed in a perfume box, was
/ sent to the American ambassador
and opened by his valet, was con-
Quoted throughout Paris and the
| entire country, by official orders.
| Arrests are imminent, the Paris
Midi declared today, adding that
| the would-be aSsassins left good
| trail.''
| Valet is Recovering.
Official France feels deeply the
| indignity of the attack upon Am
| bassador Herrick. President Mil
! Ierand and Premier BRAND today
sent personal representatives to
/ call and express their sympathy
and congratulations upon his es-
cape.
Blanchard, the ambassadors per-
sonal valet, who opened the pack
age, heard a click and at the last
minute hurled it from him, thus
/ saving his life. but was slightly
wounded. fragments of the bomb
striking him in the thigh. He pass
ed a good night and the splinters
were removed today.
/ Ambassador Herrick today told
/ the United Press of the. narrow es-
cape of his 1O-year-oId grandson.
"COwardly,- Says Herrick.
| THE little chap is usually with
my valet in my room about
O'Clock in the evening" the ambas-
sador said. But yesterday he went
with me to the reception of Cen
| eral Pershing and we were return
| ing as the explosion occurred.
/ 1T was a cowardly act; so cow
ardly l think such people will not
work in the open, so l have no
fear. l have received a number of
letters. some containing protests,
some containing threats, from com
{ A4A-AiiSbcs ACS 4Gidl6 10 the oOulu
Braintree affair with which l have
obviously nothing to do.
i have turned them over to the
police"
Police Probe Communists.
French police today began
countrywide investigation of the
activities of communists. They
planned TO question the instigators
Of public manifestations in favor OF
the release of Sacco and Vanzetti.
A monster mass meeting was
planned for Friday at the Sale
Wagream, at which communists
and syndicalists were urged 10 al
tend and protest because the rev.
olutionaries, Sacco and Vanzettl'
have been sentenced to death
Capitalist society is always piti-
less to workers" the posters ad-
vertising the meeting continued.
I'VE must meet to protest against
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