PARIS AFLAME WITH EXCITEMENT
COMMUNISTS THREATEN DISTURBANCES. POLICE REDOUBLING VIGILANCE. LONDON, July 27. It is reported that Paris is aflame with excitement in, consequence of Communist’s determined efforts to frustrate ‘the Government’s resolve to prevent the proposed disturbance on August 1. A wire connecting the prefecture of police, military headquarters and six barracks of Republican guards, has been cut with the object of paralysing' forceful stoppage of the demonstrations. The police are redoubling their vigilance. They raided the offices of the Communist newspaper Avant Garde and seized thousands of copies which, are said to contain incitements to revolt. The Paris police raided the offices of the Communist paper L’Humanit© on Wednesday night and arrested a member of the stoff. A mass of documents was received. Li’Humanite has been advocating in lengthy articles the holding of an anti-militarist demonstration on August 1, the anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War. The raid on the newspaper office was said to have revealed the existence of complete plans for that purpose.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 71, 29 July 1929, Page 5
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