PARADE IN PARIS
anti-royalist protest r ASSAULT ON M. BLUM (Received February 17, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, Feb. 16 Fifty thousand policemen maintained order during the hour taken by a procession of 100,000 members of the Front Populaire to pass through the streets of Paris. The procession, which included thousands of women and children, wa3 organised as & protest against the Royalists' assault on the Socialist leader, M. Blum. Men wearing red armlets helped to clear the route and armed Republican Guards and Mobile Guards barred entry from adjacent streets. Socialists and Communists with cries hostile to "Fascists and assassins" and Colonel de la Roque, leader of the Croix de Feu (Fiery Cross), advanced under tricolours and red flags singing The Internationale." The spectators cheered and gave the Socialist salute from windows, doors and sidewalks.
Students replied to the demonstration by chanting "The Marseillaise," but they dared not risk a clash. There were 27 temporary arrests. The line of inarch was from the Pantheon to the Place de Lantion, where members of the Chamber of Deputies, with M. Deladier in the front, received the processionists.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22346, 18 February 1936, Page 11
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