PARIS QUIET NOW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 11, 13 January 1934, Page 9

PARIS QUIET NOW.

WILD STREET SCENES. Mob Vainly Fights 10,000 Policemen. SEVEN HUNDRED ARRESTS. lUnited P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, January 12, The city of Paris is quiet this morning after the wild scenes which occurred in the Boulevard St. Germain yesterday afternoon when a mob attempted to reach the Chamber of Deputies during the first stages of the debate on the Bayonne scandals. Seven hundred people were arrested last evening, and hundreds of them have been released this morning. Police are patrolling the approaches to the Chamber, and workmen arc clearing up the streets which are littered with trees, broken benches, chairs, torn hats and clothing. The- demonstrators yesterday afternoon vainly fought 10,000 policemen and Republican Guards, who had formed a two-mile cordon round the Chamber. Torrential rain did not quench the anger of the demonstrators, whose ranks swelled every hour as people left work. Attempt after attempt was made to storm the police barricades, which had been erected on the previous night. Many fought with torn-up railings. The police repeatedly charged the crowd and also used fire hoses in self-defence. Onlookejs from windows cheered the arrested men, many of whom were war veterans. Police Win Pitched Battle. Demonstrators on the Boulevard Kaspail demolished a workmen's shelter and erected a barricade. From this the police drove the crowd back. A pitched battle occurred at a corner of the Rue dc Sevres and the Boulevard Raspail. The police overcame their opponents. A column of the demonstrators in the Boulevard St. Germain tried to reach the Chamber, and on being driven back, formed up again, only to be repelled a second time, many being arrested. Young trees were uprooted and used to trip the police. Parties of policemen raided cafes in the neighbourhood of the Chamber and ejected. the guests, whom they ordered home. Hundreds of People Injured. A discharge of fireworks at one spot caused a panic, the crowd thinking shots were being fired. Altogether 700 were arrested. Several hundred policemen and demonstrators were injured. The crowd knocked down Press photographers, apparently to prevent their obtaining anything that might be used against them. Du Barry, editor of "Volunto," and Aymard, formerly editor of "Liberte," have been arrested and are to be sent to Bayonne. Steps are being taken to prevent aeroplanes being used to flood Paris with leaflets. This is considered to strengthen the allegation made by M. Chautemps in the Chamber that a plot existed for the establishment of a dictatorship if the Government is overthrown.

Ono of those injured lost an eye and two photographers received broken skulls.