The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-22
Typical French Riot
 Proved a Good Show
Most Recent Paris Demonstrations Were Harmless,
 Mainly Yelling and Buffeting

!, ciest show since 1926, When Amer ican tourists were beaten up in the Place de pOpcra because it took abceit five times as many francs to make a dollar as it did before the war. The January, 1884, riots were marked by an innovation which presumably made history for the Camelots du Roi: huge firecrackers were wedged in the street car tracks. Every time trolley passed there were detonations like those of real Wild West show. The first time this happened there was almost a popular panic. But no bullets whistled and patricians proceeded calmly on their way.
 Riot night is like. opera night. Long before the Camelots appear on the ancient, traditional haunted boulevard St Germain, genteel burghers of another epoch, with their wives and grown-up children, pace the sidewalks expectantly. With chatter of hoofs, clanking of saber sheaths, and "horsefeath- CTS" streaming from brass helmets, the Republican Guard takes up it's accustomed posts, while ordinary and special police arrive in enor- nous "rubberneck" wagons, which later may be used as Black Marias. All takes place quietly, with a show of indiffeffrence comparable to backstage opera routine.
 Stage Fun at Night The rioters appear from mo- where, very much like the com mon, or prairie, coyote, and, gen erally speaking, pursue the tactics of that gentle quadruped. Standing in groups of 50, 100 and more, they howl, yelp and holler: Down with the government, down with the police, down with the thieves, brigands, assassins!"
 When attention of the police is | riveted on the main body of the demonstrators, squads of these 1, break away and proceed to pull l down trees, pull up shrubbery, | overturn street cleaners huts, smash the glass in iron bunga- lows"-the convenient sidewalk lavatories-and carry benches into the middle of the road.
 Sidewalk grills used to cover the sod around the trees also are thrown into the street and slipped in the slots of the street car cables, causing short-circuits which light up the scene for convenience of photographers and interrupt troll ley traffic.
 Rioters Beat Police Sometimes an overzealouS Ca- melot is collared by two or three policemen and fights back. A good whack on the head generally re- duces the youth to reason. On one or two occasions, however, these tactics have excited the public to fury and on one night a half dozen flies were swamped by about 50 demonstrators and bystanders, led by a woman, at whose hands they received what the French papers described as "a serve correction Reserves quickly cleared the street. Toward midnight, after standing in the damp cold listening to in- suits for several hours and going without dinner, the police are apt to lose their temper. They charge the Camelots, who scamper away
 in all directions. It is wise for pedestrians to follow suit, because the police use blackjacks freely or
 most mature persons in their way
 who might conceivably be Com.
 munists.
 When the Communists demon.
 strate, of course, it is a different
 story. 1t is seldom they do, tho
 last major riot being the Sacco.
 vanzetti incident of 1928, wher
 several miles of Paris steeets were
 strewn with debris and many headI
 broken.
 When Communists march. the!
 moan business. And the police do
 too.