MOB RUNS WILD.
Serious Damage in French Election Riot. CHURCH WINDOWS SMASHED. (Received li! noon.) PARIS, March 6. Wild Socialist riots at Coureon, a manufacturing suburb of Saint Nazaire, followed a Rightist victory in the local municipal elections. Socialists carrying red flags and singing the "Internationale," stoned a hotel in which the new councillors wero meeting and smashed the windows. Several persons were injured. They then partially sacked a priest's house. The priest, with his gardener and concierge, took refuge in an attic. The mob stoned a church, breaking the stained glass windows, and invaded private homes and wrecked furniture. Reinforcements of gendarmes arrived too late. further disorders arc feared.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 7
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110MOB RUNS WILD. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 7
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