CABLE NEWS
WEEKEND RIOTS
TENSION IN FRANCE
SERIOUS CLASH AT L'ORIENTi
ANTI-FASCIST MOB
United Press Association—By Electric Telt» :/ t - --,'■'..; Erwh-^Cppyright. (Received June 25, 1 p.m.) ' ;'•: >■-■'■ "-., .. '~ '.•..PAKlß|;:June 24. : Widespread- riots at the weekend i demonstrated the increasing tension'be-' , tween Fascists and anti-Fascists. The most serious clash was at L'Orient' iii f Brittany. A hundred were injured^ including 28 police, in a six-hour struggle . between-; anti-Fascists and "Mobila Guards, aud mounted police outside ». cinema in which Fascists were meeting. The police repeatedly but unsuccessfully charged against showers of stones ; arid broken bottles. Firemen were called. ' out,but tho crowd trod them down and tore,up the hoses. The mob, gaining the ' upper hand, wrecked the' cinema and proceeded to smash up the locality. The police, hitting ; out with: rifle .butts, eventually dispersed the mob. : . '
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 10
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130CABLE NEWS Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 10
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