FIERCE RIOTS IN PARIS

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21084, 8 February 1934, Page 9

FIERCE RIOTS IN PARIS

Troops Battle With Crowd MANY KILLED OUTBREAKS REPORTED IN OTHER CITIES ; h:l> i'fiksr association—by electric; J ELBOiUrn—COri'KIGIIT.) (hVcnved February 7, 10.20 p.m.) PARIS, February 7. Violent rioting broke out in several important streets, particularly in the neighbourhood of the Chamber of Deputies, last evening and continued throughout the night. Police and soldiers charged the crowd and fired on it, and the mob fought with every weapon available. Estimates of the number killed vary from 20 to 29. Several hundreds were injured.

Troops finally cleared the Place rir Concorde at 1 a.m., but communists continue to attack and set fiic to motor-buses elsewhere.

Now. at 3 o'clock, troops are pourJiiu into the centre of Paris.

11 is reported that M. Daladier (Prime Minister) wished the President. (M. Albert Lebrun) to sign a flccrc'c instituting a state of siege, Imt tins is not confirmed.

Two companies of colonial troops me guarding tl,e Ministry for the Interior, where a "council of war" is being held by M. Eugene Frot and nther Ministers.

Deputies left the Chamber, which 110 one has been able to enter or J cave till then, at 2 o'clock, going out in small groups by a back door leading to the Hue de I'Universite. Rioting is proceeding in the Gardens of the Tuilleries, the crowd smashing marble urns, statues, and stone benches.

It is reported that anti-Govern-ment outbreaks also occurred in Marseilles, Lyons, Lille, Nancy, Mantes, Rouen, Arras, and Dijon.

LEADERS TO BE PUNISHED

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST EDITOR EMERGENCY CABINET MEETING (Received February 7, 9-20 p.m.) PARIS, February 7. M. Daladier (Prime is;ucii a proclamation after midnight iliat proof had been obtained from those arrested that an armed attempt was to be made against the security of the state. An emeigency meeting of the Cabinet decided on immediate legal action against the leaders of the riot.

A charge of provocation to muirier has been launched against Charles Mauross, editor, with Leon Daudet, of the Royalist newspaper "L'Action Francaise, which called on Royalists to demonstrate against the Government. M. Si Bour (Prefect of Police) prohibited all street gatherings and processions. . M. Daladier conferred at length with the President (M Albert Lebrun) before going to the Ministry for the Interior, where he conferred with the public prosecutor. arguments about responsibility RENEWAL OF TROUBLE THREATENED PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT (Received February 8, 12.10 a.m.) LONDON, February 7. Accounts reaching London assert that 29 dead have been identified, including three women two of whom were shot dead in the Place de la Concorde, where most of the casualties occurred. The Paris correspondent of tne "News-Chronicle" estimated that 60,000 demonstrators were con " cerned in the disturbances. A renewal is threatened to-night, in spite of the police ban on street assert that thc dem ?£" strators opened fire first but the Faris correspondent of 'The^mes^ .says this is doubtful, as ma "X the men were returned soldie , while others were youths harcuy likely to possess wea P°" S- _ t - temen t M. Daladier issued a *tateme saying that the Government b appeal for calm had been observed_by war veterans, who refused to associate themselves with prQfessionaiag •tutors. On the other hand, cevUU political leagues sought to acfti V a coup de force against the Re publican regime. Proof had Deeu obtained from the arrested men o Ihe armed attempt against ine security of the State, been taken, he says, to p further attempt. rlama(!e to It is estimated hat fbout property amounts to £3o>u ■ , SO motor-cars, 10 omnibuses and Smears, and 40 newspaper kiosks were burned, while food shop looted.