BARRICADES IN PARIS
DEFENCE DURING NIGHT WOMEN FEEDING BONFIRES POLICE ADVANCE AT DAWN. ARREST OF COMMUNISTS, (United Preer Association—By Electric Teiegrapn oopyrlg-tu.; Received 2.30 p.m. to-day. PARIS, May 2. The Communists barricaded the approaches to the block which the police are surrounding. The defenders lit huge bonfires oehind 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 tlie police, aided by firemen, took possession of the barricades, tlie Communists retreating inside the houses. The police, waited till dawn and then entered the block. Some dwellers o|>enod their doors, ilmt when others refused tlie police battered down the doors and found a number Of men hiding. Twenty were arrested. Two thousand police, reinforced by mobile guards, had previously isolated a largo block of houses in a working class district, from which stones were thrown and shots fired, one officer being wounded.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 3 May 1934, Page 7
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158BARRICADES IN PARIS Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 3 May 1934, Page 7
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