RIOTERS IN FRANCE
SEQUEL TO ELECTIONS WANTON DAMAGE CAUSED PARIS, March 6 Wild rioting by Socialists in Coureon, a manufacturing suburb of St. Nazaire, followed a Rightist victory in the local municipal elections. Socialists, carrying red Hags, and singing the " Internationale," stoned a hotel in which the new councillors were meeting, and broke the windows. Several persons were injured. The mob partially sacked a priests house. The priest, with his gardener and concierge, took refuge in an attic. Subsequently the rioters stoned a church, breaking the stained-glass windows, and invaded private homes and wrecked furniture. Reinforcements of gendarmes arrived too late. 1< urther disorders are feared. i
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21744, 8 March 1934, Page 9
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