DEMONSTRATION IN PARIS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21710, 18 February 1936, Page 11

DEMONSTRATION IN PARIS

OtTCBY iVGAWSI’S&^^I vf. .: . y tv>. ,i hJ ? -‘ W V.' '^'^4 V 1 • - JiiiiiiiSiliiilii I , I ‘ , ‘ 'l. , 1 t. I .’ ''v 'Si' . (arXTBO PMSi ABIOCUTXO»-COP»>XO*T,) , 1 (Received Februat-y17*8.57 p.m.) ] PARIS* February v: j Fifty thousand police maintained ■] order during the passage of.; a pro- i cession, lasting an of iOO.OOO, j members of the Front Popu|aire, in- ■’ eluding,thousands of, women and < children, as a protest against the . Royalist assault on M’. Blmn (leader , of the Socialists). 1 Men,vretiring yed \ armlets helped to ,clear the, route, / Armed Republican guards and mo- 1 bile guards barred the entry \to ad- ; jacent streets. ' -, j Communists with cries hostile -to’ , “Fascist assassins,” and, Colonel de : la Roque' the Crete c|u J Spectators dheefed and gave the ] socialist salute from windows, 1 and footpaths. 1 * J Students replied deihon- ! stration by chanting the “Marseil-r; ] laise,” but dared not risk a clash. , J There were 27 temporary arrests.- - J The line;of march- was from the ; Pantheon to the Place de TA(:tion, '• where deputies of the DalacU®? front i received the procession! / ■ * " I 1! .V I