Evening star., 1934-02-07

General view of the Place de la
struck by stray machine gun bullets, a
did nothing to allay the growing dis
order of the crowd
Skirmishes between the police and
demonstrators steadily developed. In
one of these demonStrator was seen
trampled under foot.
Crowds Increase in Size.
The crowds steadily grew In the
Place de la Concorde and In the Rue
Royale-the scenes Of the heaviest
| fighting yesterday.
Fighting police did their utmost to
disperse the mobs, but were unable to
make headway.
About $50 mounted guards formed
a hollow square on one side of the
great square Of the Concorde. while
riot police, equipped with glisteniQg
steel helmets, banded closely together
and circulated in small groups.
Charles Maurras, the director Of the
| Royalist newspaper Action Francaise.
was arrested. Action Francaise re-
| peatedly has charged the Government
with participation in the Stavisky
| scandal.
Two weeks ago it called for demon
strations against the Chautemps gov
| ernment. The demonstrations at that
time resolved into rioting.
Not since the bloody revolution of
1870 has Paris seen such disorders as
ragged for seven hours last night.
Guns and Swords Used.
Machine guns ratified from the steps
of the Chamber of Deputies. Mounted
| guards, with drawn sabers, slashed
right and left. Guns and swords were
Daladier'S answer to IAN armed at
tempt against the safety Of the state. 3"
Thousands of Parisians, fighting and
shouting, made up the mob. They
vented their anger and fury with fire.
arms, rocks and the torch.
They fired pistols pointblank into
the ranks Of charging police.
The magnificent Place de Ia Con-
corde, where once the guillotlne stood,
| marked the worst of the rioting
Royalists led charge after charge, and
stated at the end they would start all
over again today.
The hours between pm. and mid
| night saw the widest disorder and
bloodshed. At Z o'clock the mob Of
many hundreds led by Royalists
smashed police lines at the bridge head
| leading to the Chamber of Deputies.
Guns Guard Deputies.
At tbs pm. the machine guns
mounted on the chamber steps began
splitting fire and lead. Behind those
guns, in the chamber, the deputies
were still in session.
The fire from the machine guns
| whined over the heads of the mob.
| Many bullets fattened themselves
harmlessly against the walls Of the
Hotel Crillon. One bullet killed q
French maid, another man.
The mob moved forward, then back
time after time. beating like waves
against a breakwater. The sabers and
bullets of police seemed only to add
| TO their fury.
Near midnight came the third and
bloodiest of the encounters. Police,
firing from the hip, drove the throng,
men and women alike-many fright
ened now, some Observation-Disclosures
the Place de la Concorde and up the
Rue Royale.
Women Among Victims.
Many fell, struck by bullets. Some
were women. All were caught under
the feet of their terror stricken COM
panions.
Hundreds, crushed against the
barred door of the fashionable Hotel
Crillon, pounded and pleaded for ad-
mittance. Finally they were let in.
In the richly furnished salons they
found refuge.
Thousands Of others were trapped
| in a crush of terrified humanity be-
fore the Madeleine Church.
Lamp-posts along the Rue Rivole
were smashed. Flaming gas blazed
from the broken standards, painting
| fantastic shadows against the Tuille-
ries Gardens, on one side of which
were gathered hundreds Of visitors,
including Americans, watching the
rioting.
Other fires lighted the scene. These
were the flames of bonfires, fed by
| automobiles, park benches, saplings
| and debris. They burned themselves
out finally, with police and flremen
| too occupied with the mob to attend
to the blazes.
The ground floor of the ministry
| of marine on the Rue Royale side was
wrecked. The great windows were
smashed. Lighted rolls of paper-im-
provised torches-were tossed inside
The ministry blazed half an hour
Smoke, billowing from the shattered
windows, added to the terror of the
night.
Across the street the building of the
| Guarantee Trust Co. Of New York es-
capped damage.
q. S. Embassy Untouched.
The mob also left untouched the
American embassy nearby. Several
Americans, including three officials OF
the embassy, were endangered by bull
| lets. These included j. Theodore Mar
riner, Robert C.. Pell and S. Pinkney
Tuck Of the embassy staff, and Mrs,
Gustave Porges, Vida Moore, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Jaffe, Mrs. James Ladds
and Mrs. Bessie Burr, all Of New York
Bullets were imbedded In the wall
of Mrs. Porges' room at the Crillon.
o. w. Phillips of Greenwich, Conn,
almost had his automobile burned by
the mob. We waved his passport and
the police charged to the rescue.
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