FRENCH DISORDERS.
CLASHES BETWEEN FASCISTS AND COMMUNISTS. {By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright) PAEIS, July 14. While thousands of members of the Popular Front paraded through the •east end with red flags, striking waiters smashed the windows of cafes. Elsewhere clashes occurred between Communists and Fascists. At Boulogne the police drove off strikers who were wrecking cafes. As a result of the riots in Marseilles following shooting as a Popular Fi*)nt procession was passing through the city, 20 demonstrators and 10 policemen were taken to hospital and 30 arrests have been made.
It is alleged that the throwing of tear gas bombs started the trouble.
3,000,000 FRENCH FASCISTS. PARIS, July 14. The leader of the Social (Fascist) Party, Colonel de la Eocque, who has acquired the Petit Journal at a reported price of £70,000, states in the first issue under his control that the membership of the Social Party now totals 3,000,000. He declares that the foremost object of the party is to rid France of Communism, and that this is being achieved.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 July 1937, Page 7
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