PARIS COMMUNISTS
BLOCK OF HOUSES BARRICADED POLICE FORCE ENTRANCE AT DAWN Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, May 2. (Received May 3, at 12.25 p.m.) Communists barricaded the approaches to a block which the police are surrounding. The defenders lit huge bonfires behind barricades, showing the forms of men naked to the waist and women with unkempt hair feeding the flames with furniture, doors, and window frames. At 3.30 the police, aided by firemen, took possession of the barricades, the Communists retreating inside the houses. The police waited till dawn, then "they entered the block. Some of the dwellers opened their doors, but when the o'thers refused the police battered dowli the doors and found a number of men hiding. Twenty people were arrested.
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Evening Star, Issue 21710, 3 May 1934, Page 9
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123PARIS COMMUNISTS Evening Star, Issue 21710, 3 May 1934, Page 9
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