The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-28
$4,000 RIOTERS FIGHT
POLICE IN PARIS STREET
Peace Manifestants Meet in
Front Of "Matin" Office
Many Hurt.

: PARIS. July 27.-There was an anti
militarist demonstration OF considerable
gravity here tonight II involved col
lisions Turing the entire evening betwte n
1000 pol7e and regiment Of Republican
Guards and $4,000 manifestants who we're
nassed along the main boulevards for a
distance OF mile and a half.
The trouble arose from an announce
ment in this mornings Batoilie Syndicdl-
Este summoning the people to meet in a
demonstration in front OF the Office OF the
Ndrn. The police were surprised by the
magnitude Of the demonstration and took
only superficial precautions. They re-
moved tables and seats outside the cafes
shortly after . o'clock manifestants OF
tho working class came from the poorer
quarters and 1t required rush by several
hundred policemen toward the Motin
Office tn keep order. The police cut off
traffic and protected the building
This angered the crowd. who stopped
singing the "Internationale" and other
anti-militarist songs. and shouted "Vive
Ia paix! ;" and "a has la gucrre. 90 The
mob then began individual fights with the
police and there were some concerted
PUSHES through the police lines
At $40 the boulevards 400 yards be-
yond the Mdrn office were a seething
mass OF roughly dressed workmen with a
sprinkling OF apachcs. They were battling
seriously and successfully against the
police who were In squads Of fifty.
Windows were smashed and many heads
were broken. There was no shooting. the
mobs using only their fists. The police
and Republican Guards did not fire and
there were no swords drawn The police
did not use their clubs. Several plain
clothes policemen were badly beaten up
The Republican Guards blocked the side
streets and mounted police patrollcd I'M
I'll the crowd was reduced behind police
lines In such way that double line OF
the Guards rushed the mob backward fifty
yards Al n time.
The police requislt'oned auto buses, put
the passengers out and sent the unwieldy
cars at a rapid rate into the crowd Many
windows were shattered and . number Of
the mob suffered cuts which gave work
to the Red Cross Lurses who followed
Immediately behind the double line
At II o'clock, when the fighting was
most fierce. the police directed the long
accumulated automobile traffic through
the lines OF the mob ana forced the people
toward the curb. The crowd retaliated
by puncturing the tires with jackknives
and slashing the inner tubes.
The crowd seemed to be composed OF
serious anti-miitarsts There we're no
aggressive units. few isolated patriots
started the "Marseilalsc." They were
ridculed by the mob and told TO 20 TO bed.
but they were not molested.
The police. AZ a whole kept their
tempers, but the correspondent OF THE
SUN saw feeble, white faced sex
agenarian woman brutally beaten. She
was saved only through the protests OF
reporters and photographers,
The demonstration resulted in $50 ar
rests or this number $50 were placed
In Jail More than 1000 persons were
slightly Injured. most of them by clubs.
Most of the injured attended to their own
wounds rather than ask the police to
summon an ambulance and run the risk
OF being arrested.