COMMUNISTS OF PARIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 243, 14 October 1925, Page 7

COMMUNISTS OF PARIS.

STATE BREAKS STRIKE.

SNIPING IN THE STREETS.

CLASHES AND CASUALTIES

(By Cable.—rress Association.—Copyright.)

(Received 11 a.m.)

LONDON, October 13.

In connection with the Communists' strike, thousands of armed police and gendarmes patrolled the boulevards.

Troops guarded the newspapers, post offices, power stations, water" and gas works, and bridges.

The Communists utilised the trams and buses and other vehicles as barricades, from which they kept up a sniping fire upon the police and troops. The public services are being maintained, and only the workmen employed in building, and the taxi-cab drivers appear to be affected.

Although the strike has been a substantial failure the Communists profited by the occasion to demonstrate . and harangue their followers. This led to sharp scuffles with the police, and the strikers suffered a few casualties at several places. •

One man was killed at Suresnes, where the gendarmes attacked the strikers, who were trying to force an entrance to a factory.

A spectacular fight in the north-east of Paris ended in the arrest of a Communist, Doriot, who, after kicking a policeman, was roughly handled and required the services of a doctor.

Tlie official figures show that 100 persons had been arrested in Paris and suburbs up to 8 p.m. yesterday. Sixteen of-the police were injured.

Doriot and another Communist named Cachin were both sentenced in default to 13 months' imprisonment and fined 3000 francs for their activities in connection with the so-called Committee of Action against the war in Morocco., This organisation issued a manifesto in July calling on the French forces to disobey orders and fraternise with the Riffs.

Other members of the committee were given lighter sentenced. —(Reuter and "Sun.")

ALL QUIET IN PARIS. (Received 1 p.m.) PARIS, October 13. The night was quiet and everything normal, except that the tramwaymen and busmen are still striking for professional and not political reasons.— (A and N.Z. Cable.)