Soviet Citizens Abroad Who Dare to Disobey Moscow, Nov. 22.
The Central Executive has pt press arriving here relate that explosions on the line derailed the Juggage van and brought the engine to a standstill. The crew -of the engine then uncoupled it and steamed off, leaving the train. The engine with Jugo-Slav soldiers on board travelled tothe nearest station, where the soldiers declared that Bulgarian Comitadjis were hiding near the train.
(Meanwhile passengers were much agitated, but they calmed down when they found that they were not being attacked.
The engine came back forty minutes later, the train was coupled up and proceeded on its journey.—Reuter.
Belgrade, Nov. 22.
The holding up of the Orient ox-press was achieved by the explosion of an infernal machine, which derailed the mail coach, Another infernal machine violently exploded on the same spot at five o'clock this morning. The Serbian frontier guards found two other bombs, one timed to explode at six o'clock this morning, as well as sixteen cartridges of the type used by the Bulgarian comitadjis.
'The train. was attacked by bandits, who may have had political motives, but according to latest reports, though the train guards returned the bandits' fire, there were no casualties on either side.—
Reuter.
Premier and Minister for War, 1917-20, died at 2.15 this mornin in the same stern, monastic sur-Toundings as he had lived for many years, his apartment in Rue Franklin, attended by his faithful valet and chauffeur, Francois Brabant, who drove the "Tiger" to and from the battlefields during the Great War. He was 88 years of age.
During one of his last moments of lucidity, M. Clemenceau declared: "T want no women round my deathbed—no women and no tears: I want to die before men." He even asked that the nun, Sister Theoneste, who had nursed him with the greatest care, should not be present during his last moments.
The will of the veteran statesman instructs that his body be buried in an upright position in his father's grave in the Vendee forest, "for even in death I desire to remain standing."
Flags throughout France are at half-mast in mourning for M. Clemenceau, After the dea. the "Tiger" a procession of visitors, amongst whom were to be seen President Doumergue and the Premier, M. Tardieu, called at his home throughout what remained of the night, while the famous sculptor, BIN. Cognat, took a cast of the dead statesman, 'A typical comment in the special nothing for the irrevocable _past, and little for the opinion of posterity. He- had a passion for reality, and thought it foolish to write or talk unless something would come of it.
Despite his faults, Father Vice tory, as Clemenceau was called, was Toved by the French man-in-the-street.
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