RIOTING IN PARIS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 210, 18 June 1936, Page 5

RIOTING IN PARIS

BANDS OF YOUTHS IN STREETS.

AN UGLY TURN TO STRIKES.

POLITICAL COMPLEXION GIVE*;

(United Press Association—Copyright.* (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) PARIS, June 17. At Marseilles the strike situation has taken an ugly turn owing to assumption of a political complexion with the intervention of the Jeunesses Patriotes and other Right organisations, numerous clashes, occurring with the Front Populaire. Youths of the Right and Left, wearing tri-colour cockades or red brassards, marched, shouting war cries, along the Cannebiere. Reinforcements joined both sides, and fighting began. Passersby left the trams and public vehicles, and joined in holding up all traffic.

Guards mobiles separated the combatants, but the bands re-formed elsewhere, and resumed hostilities. The Plight rioters took refuge in a disreputable gambling house, six of whose habitues barred the gate, and prepared to defend the building with revolvers. Members of the Front Populaire attacked . the premises, and Gardes Mobiles intervened, but the crowd, after an exchange of missiles, refused to disperse.