M. MILLERAND'S.

ESCAPE.

PARIS SHOOTING

OUTRAGE.

YOUNG CO(OMMUNIST'S " DEi ONSTItATION."

(FRo-u OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, JULY 14.

The great military review at Longchamp on the. occasion of France's National Fete of July 14 nearly ended in a tragedy. An attempt was made to assassinate the President of the Republic, M. Millerand, as he was returning through the Champs Elysecs.

It wvas at the carriage of the new Paris Prefect of Police, M. Naudin-appointed only a few days ago-that the shots were actually fired. It is believed, however, thiat as the President's carriage followed closely behind, the young anarchist who fired was either mistaken, or else was so unnerved that he aimed at random when the procession passed.

Happily the Prefect was not struck. The only person who was injured was a woman named Marie Daucamp. She received a trivial wound in her arm. She had, however, a narrow escape. The second bullet appears to have passed

through the sleeve of her blouse. She was standing on a chair in the front rank of the crowvd of spectators and had come up from the Midi especially to see the review.

The assailant, Gustave Bouvet, is a young man of twenty-three, and is understood to be the secretary of the Communist organization to which he belongs. He is tall, dark, and rather sickly in appearance.

He has evidently been misguided by the extremist " literature " which protests against the so-called military character of these celebrations. During the past few days certain newspapers have been declaring that the original spirit of Bastille Day has been completely perverted. Bouivet himself says that he only meant to make a demonstration. He adds that he fired upon the ground, and had no desire to hurt anybody. Against this assertion, however, is the fact that the course of the bullet was horizontal, as is shown by the hole in Mme. Daucamp's blouse.

EYE-WITNESS'S STORY.

It was at 10.45 this morning that the Presidential procession, descending the Avenue les Champs Elysees, arrived at the corner of the Avenue Marigny. Suddenly, to the consternation of the crowd, two shots rang out. An eyewitness who -was in the entourage of the President gave the following account:-

EJverybody was startled. A policeman riding a bicyele immediately dashed upon the yon1ig rman. There was a scrambling confusion of bicycles and struggling limbs. Other policemen rushed to the rescue. The bystanders were exceediigly menacing, and it would have gone hard with the youth had not the police, with remarkable alacrity anid instinctive sense of order, surrounided and protccted him from the anger of the crowd. I lost sight of him. but I observed the public thronginig round the President's carriage in order to save him from any possible further attempts.

M. 31illerand had not heard the sounds of the shots in the clamours of the populace, and was surprised to see this movement. The people cried,...