POLITICAL TURMOIL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21404, 31 January 1933, Page 9

POLITICAL TURMOIL

FRENCH SITUATION SERIOUS PARIS RIOTING TAXPAYERS DEMONSTRATE FORMING NEW CABINET By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Keceived January 30, 11.15 p.m.) PARIS, Jan. 30 M. Daladicr, Minister of War, is forming a Cabinet to replace that of M. Paul Boncour. He has never before been Prime Minister, the nearest to the position being in 1929 when he spent eight unhappy days in fruitless efforts to form a Cabinet.

M. Daladicr, who is a schoolmaster, proposes to seek the participation of Socialists in the Cabinet, but if they decline he will try to form a Cabinet of the Left on a broader basis than those of M. Hcrriofc and M. Boncour.

M. Daladier's overtures are likely to involve protracted negotiations, although the necessity of balancing the Budget is most urgent.

Serious rioting yesterday indicates the tense situation. Demonstrators representing taxpayers endeavoured to march on the Presidency. Mounted and foot police tried to stop them, but thousands of men and women, singing the Marseillaise, drove back the police by sheer force of numbers.

The demonstrators were not even intimidated by a display of steel-helmetcd guards before the Quai d'Orsay. When the mounted police finally dispersed the crowd a number were injured and there were numerous arrests.

Even larger demonstrations are being arranged. Fifty thousand taxpayers have applied for tickets for a meeting for today and there will be similar demonstrations in all parts of l 1 ranee. A meeting, representing taxpayers fiom all over the country declared that there must be no more increases of taxes, but decreases. It was decided to appeal to the President to use his full powers to give France a Government which would discipline the warring factions and also immediately reduce wasteful expenditure. Fifteen thousand farmers and employees attended an anti-taxation demonstration at Quimper, where the speakers denounced speculation in wheat and high taxes as responsible for the crisis in agriculture. Le Temps, in a scathing editorial, states that the finances of France have been compromised and danger is growing hourly. The country is restless and troubled, and political anarchy must cease. The paper criticises the Boncour Government, which it says never leally lived. It made stubborn declarations and then an abject surrender.