GRAVE DISORDERS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 15 June 1931, Page 5

GRAVE DISORDERS

POLICE ATTACKED. BY FRENCH STRIKERS. LONDON, Saturday. Ad\'iee from Roubaix states that graA T e disorders folloAved the action of the police in prohibiting a demonstration of textile strikers avlio began- to molest isolated policemen. When the latter Averc reinforced, SOO men and Avomen, armed Avith. sharp stones, attacked the police Avitli a terrific hail of missiles. The police retired Avith their faces running AA'ith blood. Finally the police Avere AvithdraAvn and troops AA'ere iiosted in a cordon round the district. No one is permitted to enter.

(Roubaix is an industrial centre near Lille, France, and a short distance from the Belgian frontier. It has a population of more than 100,000, and Avoollen manufacturing is one of its industries.) FURTHER DISTURBANCES. (Received Monday, 11.5 a.m.) PARIS, Sunday. A message from Roubaix states that there has been a recrudescence of the rioting, when three hundred Communists, Avliom the police prevented from demonstrating, reassembled in another part of the'city, A\diere they smashed street lamps and looted shop Avindows of their contents. They barricaded the streets and stoned the firemen attempting to destroy the barricades. Later the Communists Avxecked motor shoAvrooms and dragged the cars into the streets, AA'here they Averc set on fire. Cavalry arriving to disperse the mob Avere receWed with a shower of missiles, AA'hich injured three. The rioting continued until daAvn. Forty arrests' have been made. VOLLEYS OF STONES. (Received; Monday, 12.45 p.m.) . „ PARIS, Sunday, The Roubaix mob finally numbered 1000, The polico chief called on them to disperse. Tho Communists replied Avith volleys of cobble stones. One struck the chief, avlio Avas seA'erely injured. The mounted police repeatedly charged until 3 o’clock in the morning. The mob fired several shops and preA'entcd firemen from extinguishing them.