WILD SCENES.

Wairarapa Age, 7 July 1936, Page 5

WILD SCENES.

DISSOLVED FASCISTS RIOT IN PARIS. FREE FIGHT ROUND ARC DE TRIOMPHE. MANY POLICEMEN AND OTHERS INJURED. (Received Monday, 10.0 p.m.) PARIS, July 6. There were wild scenes in the Champs Elysees on Sunday evening, when ten thousand demonstrators, mostly members of the dissolved Croix de Feu, including young women wearing the national colours, elashed with strong detachments of gendarmes and Mobile Guards. The brawl lasted an hour and a half. Thirty-one police and sixty civilians were injured and fifty arrests were made. The riot followed the ceremonial of the revival of the Flame of Remembrance at the Unknown Soldiers’Tomb at the Are de Triomphe by the National Union of Ex-Combatants. Tables, ehairs and syphons snatched from cafes were used as weapons. The de ■Kmstrators formed up in the Champs Elysees and easily swept aside the first barrage of police and Mobile Guards, who, reinforced by forty platoons of Mobile Guards, strove to disperse the rioters. A free fight raged round the Arc de Triomphe. Hundreds of people sitting on cafe terraces were swept into the melee. The police were forced to charge women and children, in addition to men, in order to break up the crowd. Colonel de la Rocque declares: “The spirit of the Croix de Feu directs our efforts. We have formed a party above all other parties.”