MAY DAY IN PARIS
HOSTILE DEMONSTRATIONS. CONFLICTS WITH POLICE. MANY WOUNDED. (Australian and N.Z. Cah’oA Received May 2, 8 p.m. LONDON, May 2 In Paris yesterday infantry and cavalry reinforced the gendarmerie to prevent the May Day demonstrators marching to the Place" de fa Concorde. The crowd twice broke the military cordon, whereupon firemen turned I he; b.oses on the mob. Many heads were broken in baton charges. The riots continued last night, the demonstrators attempting to barricade the streets, hut mounted troops charged the mobs, wounding many, incl id■;ng ' Deputy Cochin, editor of I’Humanite
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5608, 3 May 1919, Page 2
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