The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-10
PARIS RI0TING
IS NOT HALTED
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! killed, according to official an
| nouncement, IL policemen We're
wounded critically, and 20 slight
Ily. Unconfirmed reports said some
rioters were killed. Newspapers
admitted casualties but gave no
figures.
Eight hundred rioters were ar
rested at barbados in the Rue
du Faubourg, Rue temple and
boulevard voltaire, where there
were veritable trenches from
which communists first fired on
police.
The communists. Infatuated at
the organization Of strong CT
servative administration, ragged
through the city, shouting impre-
cations against the government
and destroying property.
The mob stormed the Care de
lest, one of the capitals major
railway stations, and attempted
to lynch policeman, injured
when he fell from a truck rush
ing reinforcements to the battle
front. The incident caused a des-
perate encounter and shots were
exchanged.
The thousands of communists
participating in the battles sought
to storm the vast Palace de la
Republique and hold and anti
government demonstration, but
were turned aside by police and
hard-hitting mobile guardsmen.
La Riboisiere hospital admit
ted that As wounded persons had
been brought there. and ambu-
lances were seen rushing about
the streets throughout the night.
Momile guards forces were re-
duced on central boulevards. but
patrols continued all night in the
st. Antoine section and Menil-
Montant on the east side.
Sipers were busy in some sec
tions and police were forced to
shoot at communists, opening fire
on isolated groups.
Steel and bullet-proof plates.
were fitted into windows Of the
ministry of marine, along the
Rue Royale, where rioting began
last Tuesday night resulting in
the ministry building being set on
fire.
Meanwhile, Doumergue, swiftly
overriding precedent by selecting
leaders from all phases Of politi-
cal opinion. succeede din forming
a cabinet of national salvation.
In barely more than "a hours,
Doumergue, following his pro-
gram of "a common sense pol
ICY" completed task which nor
mally would have swamped al
most any other figures in French
politics. He accomplished a "sac-
red union" administration, COM
bining old age and experience
with youthful, untried enthus-
iasm.
The cabinet covers a wide
range, from the union republican
bloc at the extreme right in the
chamber of deputies, through the
neo-socialists on tn left.
Doumergue accomplished what
was described as Solomon-like
judgment by naming Andre Tar
dieu and Edouard Herriot, both
former premiers themselves, as
ministers of state without port
folios, after neither would accept
the important foreign affairs
ministry. AS ministers Of state,
both can sit in the cabinet meet
ings without being actually tied
down to conducting ministry,
and hence will be able to spend
more time preventing obstruc-
tionism in the parliament.
The premier's inclusion of Mar y
shall Philippe Petain as minister
of war and the popular General
Denain as air minister earned the
support of 100000 organized
war veterans whose manifesto
tions brought about the downfall
of the government of Edouard
Daladier during violence earlier
in the week.
The new government was as
sured of $50 deputies in the
chamber out of total of COS
a comfortable majority which
should permit it to put through
its program without difficulty,
and dispatch.
Doumergue hoped his coalition
would prove capable also of calm
ing the aroused and still uneasy
public temper, forcing a rapid
vote on the budget and bringing
speedy action in cleaning up the
Stavlsky bank scandal.
However, communist riots be-
came worse as the night advanc-
ed. and an urgent call for police
reinforcements was sent out bv
the battling units seeking to hold
back the mobs. The mob. turned
back at the place de la Repub-
lique, flowed swiftly toward the
Care de Lest, one of the major
railway stations in Paris,