SUNDAY PARADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 236, 5 October 1936, Page 7

SUNDAY PARADE.

CLASHES IN PARIS. Social Party Tries To Stop Communists. MANY PEOPLE INJURED. United Press Association.—Copyright. * (Received 2 p.m.) PARIS, October 4. Armed police and mounted Republican Guards, numbering 20,000, established an impregnable barrier around the Pare des Princes and repelled over 15,000 members of the Social party (formerly the Croix de Feu), who were advancing to invade the park and surrounding streets to prevent a Communist meeting. Many clashes resulted and there were 1300 arrests. The chief disturbances were in the neighbourhood of the Pare des Prill,ces where 3000 Communists had established themselves early in the morning to prevent seizure of the stadium by the Social party. The police barricaded the area and Army reconnaissance 'planes watched the crowds assembling and by wireless directed the police to danger points where a dozen columns of the Social party were advancing. This necessitated numerous charges. The Social party smashed windows and overturned taris. Eight police and •200 demonstrators were injured. The police by the afternoon had sufficiently dispersed the demonstrators to enable 40,000 Communists to assemble. The meeting passed a resolution demanding that in view of alleged Italian and German help being given Spanish insurgents the ban on arms to Spain should be raised.