UNREST IN FRANCE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 113, 6 February 1935, Page 9

UNREST IN FRANCE

Political Tension on Increase INJURIES IN CLASH AT LILLE Farmers Hostile Toward Government By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. Paris, February 4. Coinciding with the anniversary of last year’s riots, political tension is increasing. Hostility toward the Government is especially marked in the farming districts where unemployment is increasing. Demonstrations ar Lille culminated in a clash between Gardes Mobiles and a procession of membej'S of the Socialist-Communist Front. Two troopers and ten demonstrators were injured. One member of the Camelot du Roi was arrested. A faction fight in the Parisian suburb of Pecq between the vendors of extremist newspapers resulted in the death of Marcel Langlois, section leader of the Action Francais with a fractured skull. Two Communists were arrested. FIGHT IN STREETS Strikers Attack Police RAZORS AND BLUDGEONS (Received February 5, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 4. The Paris correspondent of “The Times” states that strikers at the Trith-St. Leger steelworks, marching toward the factory to prevent others from working, attacked a cordon of mounted police with bludgeons and razors.

The police charged, but were heavily outnumbered. Reinforcements of foot police relieved a critical situation, attacking the mob in the rear, clubbing them with carbines, injuring 20 and arresting six.