RIOT AT RACE MEETING
♦ MUCH DAMAGE DONE BY HOOLIGANS CROWD FIGHTS POLICE (Received June 24, 8.20 p.m.) PARIS, June 23. Because the favourite in the second race at Longchamps did not run, the crowd belligerently invaded the paddock. The police intervened and there was a free fight. Hooligans set fire to the pari-mutuel booths, bushes and grass, tore up railings, destroyed the starting gate, cut electric wires, and smasnect bottles and scattered glass over hundreds of yards of the racecoUrse before they were chased off by reinforcements of police from Paris. Eventually the meeting was abandoned and the money returned. The authorities are faced with the problem of restoring order and picking up the glass before the Grand Prix, which is to be run tomorrow. They are therefore working throughout the night.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21199, 25 June 1934, Page 11
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