COSTLY HOURS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 25, 31 January 1933, Page 7

COSTLY HOURS.

FRENCH UPHEAVAL.

SEARCH FOR CABINET. Budget Deficit Mounts £10,500 Every 60 Minutes. RIOTS AGAINST TAXATION. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 11 a.m.) PARIS, January 30. While France awaits the formation of a new Government by M. Daladier, the Budget deficit is growing at the rate of £10,500 an hour. Consequently he is likely to find that the post of Minister of Finance will be

the hardest to fill. If M. Daladier does succeed in forming a Ministry it is considered that it will almost certainly face the same difficulties and fall in the same way as its predecessor.

M. Herriot's newspaper, "Le Renouvelle," hopes that M. Daladier will be able to collaborate with a majority of parties and also carry out the programme which M. Herriot considered necessary.

M. Daladicr, who was Minister of War in the Cabinet of M. Paul Boncour, which has just resigned, is a. school- 1 master. He proposes to seek the participation of Socialists in the Cabinet, but if they decline he will try to form a Cabinet of the Left on a broader basis than those of M. Herriot and M. Boncour.

M. Daladier's overtures are likely to involve protracted negotiations, although tho necessity of balancing the Budget is most urgent. Talk of Dictatorship. The talk of a dictatorship everywhere in France indicates the deep discontent and unrest. Demonstrations have occurred in the provinces, where police cordons were broken T>y angry crowds.

Serious rioting yesterday also emphasises the tense situation. Demonstrators representing taxpayers endeavoured to march on the Presidency. Mounted and foot police tried to stop them, but thousands of men and women, singing the Marseillaise, drove back the police by sheer force of numbers.

The demonstrators were not even intimidated by a display of stcel-hclmeted guards before the Quai d'Orsay. When the mounted police finally dispersed the trowd a number were injured and there were numerous arrests.

Even larger demonstrations are being arranged. Fifty thousand taxpayers have applied for tickets for a meeting for to-day and there will be similar demonstrations in all parts of France.