Evening star., 1934-02-07
D0UMERGUE TAKES
POWER IN FRANCE
Aurees to Form Ministry as
Enraged Mobs Continue
Rioting.
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dster of the interior.
Opposition deputies gathered In the
Chamber lobby to discuss Whetner
they should ask the cabinet to resign
despite the fact that the Chamber
gave Premier Edouard Daladier three
votes of confidence yesterday.
A delegation of war veterans went
70 President Lebrun asking him that,
for the country'S sake, he induce
Daladier to retire.
A definite action to induce the cab
met to resign was crystallized at q
meeting of opposition deputies headed
by Andre Tardieu, former premier,
and Pierre Laval, another former
premier.
Ask President to Act.
They decided to ask the president
OF the Chamber and the president OF
the Senate to go to Lebrun and ask
bluntly for Daladier's resignation.
Even as the political oppositionists
met, the Bourse-French stock ex-
change-obServed minutes of silence
for those who were assassinated last
night"
The phrase was written In chalk
Daladier. who sat in silence last
night when angry deputies demanded
from the floor of the Chamber If he
gave 1.-The order to fire on the people"
spent most of the night with Presi-
dent Lebrun.
He emerged just before dawn from
the conference. He appeared stern
and haggard.
Then he gave Frot the authority to
ye-enforce the $4,000 police on duty
with more regiments of troops.
The legislators themselves were the
Herriot Is Jostled.
Friends Of Herriot, former premier,
said both RoyalistS and Communists
jostled him last night as he left the
Chamber.
Another hooting crowd recognized
Senator Camille ROLAND near the
Madeleine Church at noon today. He
ran into a restaurant to protect him.
self from the jeering throng.
AS the menacing crowds gathered,
Premier Daladier announced his de-
cision to resign.
Previously he conferred with Presi-
dent Lebrun, with the ministers OF
his cabinet and with the Presidents
OF the senate and the chamber.
His lined face showed care. OPP
poSitionists made it plain that they
considered him responsible for author
tzing the troops and police to fire
on the people last night.
Grimly he heard the crowds cry
rResign Resign!"
Occasionally the shout was heard:
"Assassin!"
Crowd Warns of Battle.
And there was another, more
pninouS, shout:
Now we know what to do. We
also are armed"
Wherever a crowd gathered, IN the
squares or in the boulevards, the
shouts continued:
Resign! Resign"
Thousands were jammed into the
square in front of the Bourse. Trad
ing had to be suspended because OF
their deafening cries Of:
Assassin! Vive Chapel"
The police attempted to disperse
them, but were poWerlesS They sum-
moned reinforcements by automobile
in an attempt to arrest the leaders.
But even with the reinforcements
they could not wedge their way
through the crowd to their quarry.
Police Forced to Retreat.
Instead, they had to retreat and
watched powerlesS while the crowd
waved its hands and sang the Mar
Seillaise."
once workers leaned from their
windows, shouting: "ASsaSSin!" and
"Down with Daladier!"
The news that Daladier and his
ministers had resigned spread through
the crowd like flash. Immediately
Doumergue was mentioned everywhere
as a leader who might form solid
National Union cabinet.
Doumergue himself left Paris yes
terday to 60 to this country home, at
Tournefeul, in Southern France.
President Lebrun telephoned him
there, asking him to succeed Daladier
even as he had asked him to take the
premiership last January.
But, as he had at that time, Dou-
Inergue refused.
The shouts of the crowd showed
the popularity of Jean Chiappe, for
mer prefect of police Of Paris, whom
Daladier discharged from that post.
Time and again the boulevards rang
with the shout:
''Vive Chapel"
Daladier announced his resignation
himself only few minutes before
Lebrun announced he already had
telephoned Doumergue and that
DoumerglIe had declined
Daladier summoned his ministers
for cabinet session at pm. in the
foreign Office.
Since, under French procedure,
ministers retain their duties until
their successors actually take Office,
the Daladier cabinet will map the
governmental course to cope with any
violence which might break out to-
night.
New Disorders Feared.
Disorders around the Elysee Palace
seemed imminent this afternoon when
the crowds learned that group of
automobiles had entered the palace
courtyard.
A troop of mounted guards gal
ioped to the palace, firemen on riot
duty laid fire lines in preparation for
the feared attack, police lines were
formed to protect the firemen and
additional mobile guards were sum-
moned.
On its first rush. the mob was
blocked off successfully.
The presence of the mob, however,
prevented the cabinet ministers from
making their traditional call OF res
tgnation on the President.
That call was postponed although
Daladier, himself, had been able to
tender his resignation in the GUS
tomary manner.
The President probably will receive
the ministers and thank them person.
ally for their services during their
pine-day tenure Of Office, later.
Crowds Mood Ugly.
Despite this resignation, however,