New-York tribune., 1921-10-22
Reds, Crying
Hate at u. s.,
Fight Police
Shots Bring Charge on Mob
OF 10000 in Paris, and
Communists Hurl Bomb.
Wounding Z Cendarmes
ClamorSpreads to London
Noted French Authors Send
Appeal to Harding for
Lives of Italian Slayers

VIZ isit' iJ-i New York Tribune Inc
PARlS, Oct. 21.-Paris Communists.
protesting the death penalty that hangs
over two Italian murderers in Massa-
chusotts, fought an attempt of the
french police to break UP mass meet :.
ing IN hall in the Avenue Wagram
eo-nlght. When the police charged the
mob, numbering 5000 inside the build l..
ing and at least 1000 outside. the Reds
Threw bomb, wounding seven of tho
police slightly.
shot fired in the hall, which wound :
ed one of the Communists in tha faco
was the signal for the police CHARGE
and In the ensuing confusion the nol;co
were attacked rs they entered the
building The meeting was the latest
aeveionment in the Red campaign TO
oioch the execution of Bartolc,neo Van
zetti and Nicoo Sacco in M.ssachu-
setts and was regarded by the nolco
as an attempt to rally the radicals and
lncrte them to further attacks on
Americans resident here.
Swords Drawn at Embassy
BY II O'Clock tonight the police had
cleared the Wagram Hall, which is near
the Arc de Triosnphe. The Con,mundsts
marched out singing the Internationale
hyfnn, and finally dispersed when thev
met body of two hundred fully armed
gendarmes and squad Of renuhl;can
guards ready for trouble.
1t had been feared that the Com.
munists, after an incendiary meetinc
would repair to the home of Ambassa,, a,
dor Herrick in the Avenue de Messines
where Red bomb exploded Wednes,
day, and attempt q dem mon stration. Roth
that residence and the American EN-
passy, were fanked with mounted
guards with drawn. sabres and foot
police, and the Reds gave up the idea
of approaching either place.
The government had taken full nre.
cautions to deal with the mob. In the
PLACE Vendome, stones throw from
the Tribune's Paris office, heavy mill
tary guards were drawn up around the
American banks there. 1t was an
parent that the police expected gen
eral outbreak against Americans and
American institutions. At midnight
the situation had calmed and danger
OF further trouble seemed to have been
averted. The Communists apparently
were cowed by the heavy police pre-
cautions taken against them
Reds Among the Injured
PARIS, Oct. p (By The Associated
Press) ).-Several Of the demonstrators
besides the police were hurt, and six
persons were arrested, charged with
disorderly conduct, at the Communist
protest meeting to-day
The meeting had been widely adyer-
tised as protest against the American
government, capitalists and the execu-
tlon of ,Sacco and Vanzetti. The speak
ers were bitter in their vtuperation of
the American government and ex-
pressed execration Of American capi-
ta'ists.
While the proceedings inside the hall
were without incident, except for fiery
speeches, the crowd outside resented
the efforts of the police to keep them
on the move. AS the police were carry
ing out their orders three shots were
1lred from the crowd at the mounted
men, one of whom fell The man who
lad fired the shot that brought down
the trooper was imme mediately cut down
by the saber of another mounted man.
The police then closed the hall and
would not permit any one to enter or
leave it, During the speeches inside
the audience openly called upon the
leaders to march upon. the embassy, but
the speakers themselves made no ref
erence to such a move.
During the meeting the anarchist
newspaper "Libertaire' and various
CONTINUED