REDS OUTWITTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 255, 27 October 1928, Page 9

REDS OUTWITTED.

FUNERAL INCIDENTS. Burial Of Vincennes Disaster Victims. AEBIAL SURVEILLANCE. (United Service.) PARIS, October 26. There \fiere strange scenes at the funeral of the 19 persons who were killed when a building collapsed at Vincennes on October 19. Triple lines of police and city guards formed a cordon round the Vincennes Town Hall-, where lay the coffins, covered with flags and flowers. The police promptly sorted out the Communists from the crowd, who had declared that they would not permit any official to attend the funeral. As thousands of workers poured out from the underground station plainclothes men discreetly tapped the Reds on the shoulder, whispering "This way." The unsuspecting Communists docilely obeyed, and were led to the old fortifications and detained. Resisters were hustled off to the police station.

The police used a cafe intended for the Communist headquarters as a trap. They allowed the Reds to report themselves at the cafe, and took them into custody as they made their exit.

The funeral was carried out with all decorum, under the surveillance of a wirelessly-equipped police aeroplane, which enabled motor lorries full of police and armed guards to forestall the Communists at strategical points and to prevent rush tactics.

Those who were detained numbered 1500, of whom 50 were armed.