PARIS RIOTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23009, 9 April 1938, Page 15

PARIS RIOTS

§g CABINET CRISIS | FALL EXPECTED .FINANCIAL MEASURES STREET DEMONSTRATION POLICE CHARGE CROWDS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright PARIS, April 7 - The Senate Finance Committee Rejected M. Blum's Finance Bill. M. Edouard Daladier, the RadicalSocialist leader and Vice-Premier, •jg believed certain to be the next 'Prime Minister. % M. Blum is not expected to resign tmtil the Finance Bill has come to

the Senate to-morrow. ;! It is reported that M. Daladier Jias already drawn up a "paper Cabinet."'

France is on the brink of the most Serious Government crisis. It is by no means certain that, a National Ministry will follow M. Blum's unavoidable downfall to-morrow, which would mean s continuation of restivencss when a strong Government is most needed, i Clashes between police and demonstrators occurred in the vicinity of tho genate to-night as a result of the rejection by the Senate Finance Committee of M. Blum's Finance Bill, which makes tho fall of M. Blum's Cabinetinevitable. Shouting "Long live Blum," and "Caillaux to the gallows"—M. Caillaux is chairman of the Finance Committee—3ooo demonstrators attempted v to storm the Senate building after baton charges in which a policeman was inifed, but there were no other serious {casualties.

Tho crowds eventually dispersed, but placards were posted this morning calling on Communists, Socialists and trade unionists to join in a demonstration, which the Minister of the Interior, J{. Dormoy, immediately banned. The crowds, defying the ban, got within a few hundred yards of the Senate building before they were driven back. About 5000 police and Mobile Guards Jtrere posted in the vicinity. Some of the demonstrators seized chairs from cafe terraces and attacked the police, while others tore up iron tree-guards. The police soon had control and forced the crowd from the of the Senate.

MMAMENTS HELD UP

STRIKES, IN INDUSTRIES 50,000 WORKERS AFFECTED NON-DELfVERY OF AIRCRAFT. PARIS, April 7 Whatever Government succeeds M. Blum's Administration, it will have to face the problem of' stay-in strikes in tiie metal, motor-car and aircraft industries which are hampering France's defence plans. ' There were three more strikes in the Paris region this evening, making the total 29, affecting 50,000 workers. Rearmament, especially the supplying of.aircraft, is, almost at a standstill as the result of strikes in 17 factories. No work is being carried out at the Messier factory, which holds a monopoly in the supply of essential aeroplane parts, for .which reason no deliveries of machines from other works can be made to the government.