“DOWN WITH RUSSIA!”
LATE FRENCH PRESIDENT A FUNERAL INCIDENT PARIS, May 12. Dragoons, police and two companies of the French Tank Corps battled a crowd crying “Down with Russia,” outside the Pantheon to-day as the body of Paul Doumer, late President of France, ' was laid' for a moment beside the remains of Voltaire, Victor Hugo and Zola.
Tlie national funeral for the Pros! dent, slain by a Russian fanatic, started quietly from the Elysee Palace, lint on the slow march from the Gatedral of Notre Dame to the Panthebn, a woman began the cry of "Down with Russia”' and five hundred thousand voices took up the chant.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 119, 14 May 1932, Page 5
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