SERIOUS RIOTS IN PARIS

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 32, 7 February 1934, Page 7

SERIOUS RIOTS IN PARIS

PARLIAMENT HOUSE BESIEGED. FIGHTS AND UPROAR BY DEPUTIES. POLICE OPEN FIRE ON MOBS OUTSIDE. SEVEN REPORTED DEAD, 400 WOUNDED. The series of riots which has troubled Paris for the past few days, arising out of the political crisis precipitated by the Stavisky financial scandals, took a serious turn yesterday, when, according to latest reports, the police were forced to open fire on the demonstrators. The Chamber of Deputies, where M. Daladier, Prime Minister, was to make a declaration on the part of his Government, formed since the crisis, became the focal point of the demonstrations and was elaborately guarded. In the Chamber itself, what is described as one of the stormiest sittings in history, was taking place, and during the statement by the Prime Minister the sitting had to be suspended because of the free fights and disorder caused by the Deputies. The building was in a state of siege. The latest unofficial figures are seven killed and 400 wounded. A battalion of infantry arrived in front of the Chamber to stay all night. Fighting continues in the Place de la Concorde. There is no sign of the rioting ceasing. Fifteen guards were wounded in half an hour.