Darjeeling, May 8.
The Governor of Bengal, the Rt. Hon. Sir John Anderson, had a narrow escape from death to-day at the hands of assassins.
While attending a local race meeting this afternoon the Governor was fired at by two Bengalis with revolve cers, but the shots all missed their The assafiants were arrested.
Sir John, who is 52 years of age," has been Governor of Bengal since 1982, Prior to taking up his Indian post he was Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Home: Affairs for ten years, from 1922 to 1992—
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