SUSPENSION OF SITTING

Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1934, Page 5

SUSPENSION OF SITTING

CONFIDENCE VOTE PASSED CITY PREPARED FOR RIOTS SEVEN-DEAD; 400 WOUNDED Paris, Feb. 6. M. Daladier began reading the Ministerial declaration in the Chamber, and within ten minutes pandemonium arose, necessitating suspension .-.of the-sitting. When the sitting was resumed M. Daladier proposed that the debate should be shortened by limiting the Opposition interpellations to four, which was made a question of confidence on which the Government was successful by 300 votes to 217. M. Daladier, amid the booing of the Kight, recommenced the Ministerial declaration. He continued amid jeers and guffaws. When M. Daladier began his speech a free fight broke out on the floor of the Chamber. The police and the military received drastic instructions for the preservation of order. When Mj* Daladier declared that full light would be thrown on the Stavisky case the deputies of the Right and Left stood up shouting at each other. When he referred to the reform of the personnel he was greeted by shouts of “Comedie Francaise,” while Communists banged their desks and shouted “Soviet.” The latest unofficial figures state that seven were killed and 400 wounded in rioting in the streets. A battalion of infantry has arrived in front of the Chamber and will stay all night. The fighting continues in the Place de la Concorde, and there is no sign of the rioting ceasing. Fifteen guards were wounded in the last half-hour.

A surprising development is the reinstatement at the Comedie Francaise of M. Fabry who resigned the portfolio of War. It is stated that M. Thome is being provided with a diplomatic post, and M. Chiappe took a tearful farewell of the Prefecture of Police, and moved with his wife into private apartments. The city is prepared for riots. The iron - grilles have been stripped from trees and all tables and chairs outside cafes, which are rioters’ favourite weapons, have been removed by the police. Five different mobs, mainly of the ExSoldiers’ Union, League of Young Patriots, Royalists, Fascists and Communists, are expected to converge on the Chamber of Deputies. The Socialist Party issued a mobilisation order calling on the Socialists to report to-night at the local party offices. The chief difficulty of the police will not be the protection of Parliament as much as the presumption of the rival mobs clashing. • . . M. Daladier is appealing to Parisians to remain calm. He says that there has been no movement of troops. M. Chiappe’s successor, M. Sibour, asserts that the “situation is worrying— Paris is far from calm.” M. Sibour is personally in charge of 14,000 members of the Republican guard, the garde mobile and the police, which he hopes will be sufficient to maintain order. Civil aeroplanes, with the exception of commercial air services, are prohibited from flying over Paris. The troops of the Paris garrison are confined to their barracks to prevent mingling with the crowd.