INSULTS FOR FOREIGNERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19389, 26 July 1926, Page 9

INSULTS FOR FOREIGNERS.

HOSTILE FOREIGN CROWDS.

B.LAME FOR ILLS OF FRANCE.

TOURISTS HOOTED AS PASTIME. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z.-Beuter. PARIS, July 24. The past week has been one of most intense excitement in France. The frenzy of thg public has not been so apparent, however, since the formation of the Poincare Ministry. The rush made by the. populace togather in goods and clothes before prohibitive prices could be charged has now practically, ceased, but the large warehouses are still withholding goods from sale. Resentment against foreigners, who are blindly blamed for the ills e of France, continues unabated. As a matter of fact, hooting at charabanc loads of tourists has become a favourite eyening pastime. At first these demonstrations occurred when cars were touring in the Montmartre district, but now they have spread practically throughout the city. An ugly incident occurred when a touring car collided with a, taxi-cab on one of the main boulevards. A crowd of people stormed round the car "boohing" and jeering. Two Englishmen who were passing tried to quieten the crowd, but they were attacked with stones and walking sticks and compelled to run for safety.

Americans are chiefly the subjects of this peculiar French anger, but the presence of Englishmen in the city is also strongly resented. The ordinary Frenchman talks wildly about the rise in the pound instead of in the dollar when he is seized with his daily fit of hatred. A crowd of people collected on Thursday evening at a point on the boulevards, where motor coaches assemble every day to begin tours of the capital. The demonstrators hooted the foreign passengers and became so threatening that the latter were compelled to alight. Finally two coaches succeeded in pushing their way through the people, who were barring the road. The police were summoned and extricated British and American tourists from the crowd.