TENSION IN FRANCE
[ANNIVERSARY OF RIOTS [ HOSTILITY TO GOVERNMENT FATAL FACTION FIGHT [By Telegraph Press Association PARIS, Feb. 4. Coinciding with the anniversary of last year’s riots political tension is increasing. Hostility towards the Government is especially marked in the farming districts where unemployment is increasing. Demonstrations at Lille culminated in a clash between Gardes Mobiles and a procession of members of the Socialist Communist Front. Two troopers and ton demonstrators were injured. One member of the Camelot du Roi was arrested. A faction fight in the Parisian suburb of Pecq between the venders of extremist newspapers resulted in the death of Alarcel Langlois, section leader of the Action Francais with a fractured skull. Two Communists were arrested. STEELWORKERS’ STRIKE SERIOUS CLASH WITH POLICE LONDON, Feb. 4. The, Times’ Paris correspondent says that strikers at Trith Saint Leger steelworks marching to the factory to prevent others working attacked the preventive cordon of mounted police with bludgeons and razors. The police charged, but were heavily outnumbered. A reinforcement of foot police relieved the critical situation, attacking the mob from the rear and clubbing them with carbines, injuring twenty and arrest ing six. _
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 7
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191TENSION IN FRANCE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 7
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