The Archive · 1935

French Premier Injured

Paris, May 4, 'The French Prime Minister, M. Pierre-Etienne Plandin, was injured, ina motor collision' "to-day while proceeding to Dancey-sur-Cure, small town in the Yonne depart blent, for the purpose of voting in to-morrow's Municipal elections, The Premier, the sole casualty among six persons involved, fractured.

bone of the upper arm and, in bed in a nursing home His conditions is quite satisfactory, and no complications are feared.

Reuter was informed to-night that} the fracture had been set and that the patient was now resting.

Madame Flandin, who was accompanying her husband, was shaken but nep seriously affected, while the other occupants, the ' Premier's daughter and son-in-law, were not hurt.

'M. Flandin was taken to Paris this afternoon, "Meanwhile, he has received telegrams of sympathy from Prime Minister, 'Sir John' Simon, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the British Foreign' Secretary, Mr. Stanley. Baldwin, Lord president of the Coun: cil, President Zamora. of Spain, the} Rumanian Minister of Finance, Victor Antonesco, and the Italian, British, American'and Soviet Ambassadors' in Parls—Havas,

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