GUARDS IN PARIS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19041, 15 June 1936, Page 13

GUARDS IN PARIS

ORDER TO BE ENFORCED

GOVERNMENT DETERMINED

STRIKE SWAY WANING

MANY TRADES TO RESUME

(Elec. Tel. Copyright— United Press Assn.) (Heed. June 13, 2.150 p.m.) PARIS, .June P>-

The Paris Municipal Council has resolved to decline all responsibility for any damage by strikes, the illegality of which the Government has recognised, bill has no! attempted U> condemn.

The Ministry of Labour has announced the termination of-.strikes in the eabinetmaking, butchering, dressmaking, slop-clothing, and leather bag and trunk trades, while metallurgical workers, buildings, carpenters and locksmiths arc expected to resume work on .Monday.

The most important individual settlement to-day was the signature of a collective contract at the Ministry ot the Interior by employers and employees of the metallurgical industry.

TOWN HALLS OCCUPIED A significant development was the occupation of all Paris town halls by armed mobile guards, who, however, are gendarmerie and not soldiers. The action resulted from a conference between the Prime Minister, M. .Leon Blum, and the Minister of the Interior, M. Salengro, with the Police Prefect, M. La Geron, at which it was determined to ensure the preservation of order at all costs.

M. Blum declared that the Deputies of the Government were determined to

enforce public order. In view of the impression that suspicious external influences were operating, resulting in an increase of nervousness and the emiency towards panic the Government is'guarding every strategic point in the city. This demonstrates the Government's anxiety to prevent rioting. Buglers and mobile guards are on duty on the Montmartre-Drouot •rossroads, ready to sound a firing ilarm, namely, three warning blasts, ,he neglect, of -which by .crowds proluces a final blast, after which the guards are legally entitled to fire. Similar tense conditions prevail in all .he great industrial areas. Many members of the Croix de Feu iO-day perambulated the streets with i he pretence of preserving order, but ilto police refused their aid-and arrested many.

The Bourse is steady, but the franc 'ins depreciated from 7(5.28 to 76.39.

TROUBLE IN AMIENS

LUNATIC ASYLUM

FACTORY SET ON FIRE

(flecd. Juno 13, 3 p.m.) AMIENS, June 12. Undertakers' employees have struck, vuihr'mg funerals impossible. Lunatic asylum warders struck and aft the director single-handed. The nmatcs of a factory deliberately set it ,nAire, but it was "extinguished by fireaen.