COMMUNISTS AT BAY.
BONFIRES AND BARRICADES IN PARIS. POLICE FORCE AN ENTRY. PARIS, May 2. Communists barricaded approaches to the block, which the police invested, lighting huge bonfires behind the barricades, showing the forms of men naked to the waist and women with unkempt hair, feeding the flames with furniture, doors, and window frames. At 3.30 the police, aided by firemen, took possession of the barricades, the Communists retreating inside the houses. The police waited till dawn, and then entered the block. Some of the dwellers opened the doors, but when they were refused entrance the police battered the doors down. They found a number of men hiding. Twenty were arrested. (Two thousand police, reinforced by Mobile Guards, isolated a large block of houses in a working-class district whence stones had been thrown and shots fired).
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Wairarapa Age, 4 May 1934, Page 5
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