RIOTS IN PARIS
CO AIMUNISTS BARRICADE STREETS. BONFIRES OF FURNITURE AND FITTINGS. POLICE NOW IN CONTROL. (U.P.A bv Elec. Tel. Copyright.) PARIS, May 2. Communists barricaded the approaches to a block of houses in the working-class district whence stones were thrown and shots fired. The police are surrounding the block. The defenders lit huge bonfires behind the 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 o’clock the-police, aided by firemen, took possession of the barricades, the Communists retreating inside the houses.
The .police waited till dawn and then entered the Block. Some of the dwellers opened the doors, but- when others refused the police battered down the doors and found a number of men hiding. Twenty persons were arrested. . *
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 12244, 4 May 1934, Page 5
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