PARIS DISTURBANCES
SOCIAL PARTY AND COMMUNISTS AEROPLANES HELP POLICE . Fracs Association —By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, October 4. The chief disturbances occurred in the neighbourhood of the Parc des Princes, where 3,000 Communists established themselves'early in the morning to prevent tho seizure of tho stadium by the Social Party. The police barricaded the area. Army reconnaissance planes watched the crowds assembling and directed the police by wireless to danger points where a dozen columns of tho Social Party were advancing, necessitating numerous charges. The Social Party smashed windows and overturned taxis. Eight police and 200 demonstrators were injured. The police in the afternoon had sufficiently dispersed the demonstrators to enable 40,000 Communists to assemble. Tho Communist meeting passed a resolution demanding, in view of alleged Italian and German help for the insurgents, the raising of tho ban on arms to Spain. ONLY ELEVEN TO BE CHARGED PARIS, October 5. (Received October 6, at 1.30 p.m.) Only 11 of 1,500 arrested in connection with Sunday’s disturbances are to be charged.
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Evening Star, Issue 22462, 6 October 1936, Page 9
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167PARIS DISTURBANCES Evening Star, Issue 22462, 6 October 1936, Page 9
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