PARIS CELEBRATES FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF LIBERATION
PARIS, August 21 (Rec. 10.10 a.m.). —Police drew, batons tonight when a crowd tried to march through the city streets after a ceremony, at the Montparnasse railway station to mark the fifth anniversary of the liberation of Paris. Police in cars and on motor-cycles formed a solid barrier against the marchers. Thousands of gaily-dressed Parisians thronged the square in front of the station. Several hundred police tried io enforce order, confining the demonstration to the square. Ex-servicemen marched past carrying- slogans for peace and freedom.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 August 1949, Page 5
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