PARIS INCIDENT
POLICE SURROUND BLOCK COMMUNISTS ARRESTED (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received May 3. 3 p.m.) PARIS, May 2. Communists barricaded the approaches to the block of houses in the workingclass distict whence stones were thrown and shots fired. The police are surrounding the block. Tho defenders lit huge bonfires behind the barricades, showing the forms of in e n naked to the waist and women with unkempt hair feeding the flames with furniture, doors and window frames. At 3.30 o’clock the police, aided by firemen, took possession of the barricades, tho Communists retreating inside the houses. The police waited till dawn and then entered the block. Some of the dwellers opened the doors, but when others refused the police battered down the doors and found a number of men hiding. Twenty persons were arrested.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18387, 3 May 1934, Page 13
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136PARIS INCIDENT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18387, 3 May 1934, Page 13
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