STRIKE IN FRANCE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 53, 13 February 1934, Page 7

STRIKE IN FRANCE

PARTIAL STOPPAGE Numerous Street Incidents CONSEQUENCES NOT GRAVE (By Telegraph—Press Assu.—Copyright.) (Received 13, 11.35 a.m.) PARIS, Feb. 12. The strike stoppage was only partial throughout the country. Half the miners in the northern districts are working. Lille lacks trams, buses and postal service. Schools generally are open throughout the country. Strikers in Paris stoned a tram in St. Denis and forced tho passengers tS descend. A stick of dynamite was exploded in a Marseilles church, shattering the windows. M. Sarraut permitted a Socialist demonstration in the evening, but the demonstrators were out allowed in the danger areas. Strikers in La Vallois Clinchy stopped buses and smashed the windows. Women in the Cobeline district lay in front of buses and the police arrested them. There were numerous brawls between pickets and workers atfactory gates. Strikers attempted to destroy the railway points at Bruny. M. Sarraut announced that Paris is quiet and there were no grave incidents. Some 367 arrests were made. The London-Paris telephone service Ims been resumed. The chief of the Communists in Chaville, a Parisian suburb, was found stabbed to death near a barricade which the Communists erected in a roadway. A big fire at a Marseilles sulphur refinery resulted in £25,000 worth of damage being done. It is believed it was due to sabotage. Two have died in hospital in Paris from injuries due to last week’s