POSITION IN FRANCE

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 35, 10 August 1927, Page 9

POSITION IN FRANCE

POLICE DISPERSE MEETINGS

LONDON, Bth August. The Paris correspondent of "The Times" says the Saeco-Vanzetti demonstrations passed off quietly. The police prevented open-air meetings. A hundred loafers, Communists and sightseers, attended the Place de la Concorde, but quickly dispersed when the police appeared. Transport employees were called on for a twenty-four hours' strike, but only agreed to stop their vehicles ten minutes. Twenty per cent, of the workmen in all trades responded to the strike summons. Four demonstrators were arrested for attempting to stop vehicles and trams. Police are on duty everywhere, and the United States Embassy and Consulate are heavily guarded. The newspaper "Humanite" proposes, if Saceo and Vanzetti are executed, a boycott on all American goods and entertainments of American origin, and organised hostility to representatives of "Yankee hypocrisy."

The Dunkirk dockers have struck, and at Marseilles a small minority of workmen are striking.

The "Petit Parisian" states that during a Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration at Le Harve shots were fired at a nonstriking, taxi-driver. The assailant took refuge on a house-top, committing suicide before he could be arrested.

£Le Matin" states that demonstrators at Casablanca burnt the American flag in front of the American Consulate.