COMMUNIST HUNT.
ARMED FORCES IN PARTS SUBURB MAYOR. SiM AiCAKS GENOA RM.E’S FACE!. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) —United Service). PARIS, Aug. 5. The suburb- of Tvry, with 40,000 inhuibi tail its-, where the authorities had prohibited a.. OoinnmmLst and an antiin Hit ani-st demon stmt-ion, was in a- state of siege yet-serday. Armed police patrolled the streets from dawn and 3000 police and firemen anri-viiTg in motor lorries occupied strategic posts. Public services were suspended in order to fteniroh the town for Communists, who hid; in cafes and'bars' whither film gendarmes pursued them. The Mayor of lvry smacked a gendarme’s face and was promptly arrested and the apprehension of 500 communists followed. The garrison troops in Paris were detained in 'barracks in case of violence a-s the situation was regarded as a test, of strength between the police and the Communists. Fifty Red guards were arrested as they left a demonstration in Paris last night. The position later quietened.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 7 August 1928, Page 5
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161COMMUNIST HUNT. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 7 August 1928, Page 5
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