Paris, Nov. 7.
Despite an immediate operation, Herr Ernst von Rath, Third Secretary in the German Embassy here, was in a serious condition today after being of by the Polish Jew, Herschel Feibel Grymsztan.
With two bullets in his body, Herr von Rath was rushed to hospital and one of the lead pellets was extracted. The other still remains lodged dangerously in.his badly-injured spleen.
Baron Johannes von Welczeck, German Ambassador, called upon M. Georges Bonnet, Foreign Minister, who expressed the French Governments deep regrets over the murderous attempt.
The Reichs envoy asserted that Grymsztan revealed to the police authorities that he was a Polish refugee and wanted to kill any member of the German Embassy to avenge ihe Polish Jews recently expelled en masse from the Reich.
Grymsztan was expelled from France last August but found shelter with an uncle and aunt in Paris, It is understood that his parents were among those recently expelled from Germany. They are at present living in a railway car "somewhere along the Polish-German frontier."
From Berlin it is reported that Herr Adolf Hitler, German Chancellor, has sent here his personal physicians, Dr. Brandt and Professor Magnus, director of the Clinic of Munich University, to examine the shot man's wounds and to inform him upon their ture—Ha. as.
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