WILD UPHEAVAL

Northern Advocate, 7 February 1934, Page 7

WILD UPHEAVAL

CLASHES IN PARIS MOB SCATTERED BY GUARDS NUMEROUS CASUALTIES. WHOLE, GARRISON MOBILISED. {United Press Association —By Eiecma Telegrapb.—Copyright.. (Received 9 a.m.) PARIS, February 5. Four thousand demonstrators reach' ed the offices of the Ministry of the Interior late this evening. Republican Guards charged repeatedly, and scattered the crowds, who la(er re-formed and marched past the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. They had several clashes with the police. A Paris Deputy, M. Sciapini, and two policemen were injured and sent to hospital. Ten’ people were arrested. Another account of the affair states that the 4000 demonstrators comprised ex-soldiers, Royalists and students. They bore banners and chanted “The -Marseillaise.” When they reached the Ministerial quarter, troopers of the mounted Republican Guards drew their swords, charged and scattered the demonstrators. Some_.of the rioters throw handfuls of sand in the horses’ eyes. Four hundred demonstrators, headed by M. Sciapini, who is blind, broke the barricades, and reached the barred doors of the Ministry of the Interior before they were dispersed. M. Sciapini was trampled down.

' The Royalist newspaper, “L ’Action Ifrancaiae, ” is organising a demonstration to bo held when Parliament meets . tomorrow. * The Minister of the Interior, M. Frot, has ordered several tanks to bo rushed to the city, and the whole garrison has been mobilised. The police patrols have been quadrupled .and the mounted Republican Guardsmen have been posted in the vicinity of the Chamber of Deputies. It is stated that the troops will not be employed unless the police and the guard are not able to cope with the FIVE SECTIONS CONVERGING j ON CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES DRASTIC PRECAUTIONS FREE FIGHT.IN PARLIAMENT (Received 11 a.m.) PARIS, February 6. The city is prepared for riots. Iron grills have’been stripped and all tables tind chairs biitside cafes, which are favourite weapons for rioters, have been removed by the police. Five different mobs, namely, the Ex-’ Soldiers’ Union, the League of Young Patriots, the Royalists, Fascists and Communists, are expected to converge on the Chamber of Deputies. The Socialist Party has written, a mobilisation order, calling on all Socialists to report tonight at their local party offices. The chief difficulty of the police • will not be the protection of Parliament, as much as the prevention of the rival mobs from clashing. M. Daladier' Prime Minister, in an appeal to Parisians .to remain calm, says there has been no movement of troops.

M. Chiappe ’s> successor, M. Sibour, Prefect of Police, admits that “the situation is .worrying. Paris is far from calm, ’’ he said. M. Sibour is personally in charge of 14,000 members of the Republican Guard and the Garde Mobile Police, which he hopes will be sufficient to maintain order. Civil aeroplanes, with the exception of commercial air services, have been prohibited flying over Paris, and the troops in the Paris garrisons have been confined, to barracks to prevent their mingling with the crowd. The police and military received drastic instructions for the • preservation of order.

A surprising development is the reinstatement of M. Fabry at the Comedie Francaise. ‘lt is stated that M. Thome is being provided with a diplomatic post. M. Chiappe took a cheerful farewell of the Prefecture, and moved with his wife into private apartments. When M. Daladier. began his speech in the Chamber of Deputies, a free light broke out on the floor of the House 1 and the sitting was suspended.