CHAOS IN THE HOUSE

Northern Advocate, 7 February 1934, Page 7

CHAOS IN THE HOUSE

STATE OF SIEGE BOOS AND CATCALLS. STREET RIOTING RENEWED. (United Press Association— By Elacirw Telegraph.— Copyright.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) PARIS, February 0. With the Chamber surrounded by police, mounted guards and thousands of troops, hidden at strategic points in the courtyards and in neighbouring public buildings, the Chamber began a. sitting which was to end in Parliament Buildings being in a state of siege and sounds of police volleys penetrating the walls. M; Daladier, Prime Minister, faced one of the stormiest sessions in the history of the Chamber. The sitting was marked by a- continual series of boos and catcalls. Free fights and disorders were so groat that the sitting was twice suspended. The Prime Minister began by reading a ministerial declaration, but in 10 minutes pandemonium arose, necessitating a suspension.

When the sitting was resumed, M. Daladier proposed- that a vote should he shortened by limiting the Opposition interpellations to four. This was made a question of confidence, on which the Government was successful by 300 votes to 217.

M. Daladier, amid the yelling of the Eight, commenced his ministerial declaration, which he continued amid the jeers and guffaws. When he declared that a full light would be shown on the Stavisky ease, the deputies of the Eight and Left stood up shouting at each other,. His reference to the reform of personnel was greeted with shouts of t( Comedic Franchise,” while Communists banged the desks and shouted, ‘ ‘ Soviet. ” Violent rioting broke out in the evening in the Palace de la Concord, the Euc de Eivoli and other important streets. The crowd set fire to the. Ministry of Marine, but firemen extinguished the flames within half an hour.

The mobile police fired several volleys, and it is reported that two demonstrators were killed, including a woman, and that many were injured.