10 APRIL 1926, Page 2

- On Wednesday an attempt was made on the life

of Signor Mussolini by Miss Violet Albina Gibson—a sister of Lord Ashbourne—who fired at him with a pistol when he was leaving the International Congress of Surgery in Rome. Signor Mussolini was slightly wounded in the nose. The news that he was in no danger from the wound was received here with universal relief, and all Englishmen join in sending him sincere expressions of sympathy and congratulation. The attempt has, of course, no political significance whatever. It was a very sad culmination to a long history of mental instability in an unhappy woman who had gone to live in Rome under a religious impulse.