Evening star., 1934-02-11
Disorders Feared as 800,-
600 Prepare to Participate
in General Strike.
NEW MINISTRY TACKLES
GRAVE ISSUES AT ONCE
Threat to Austrian Sovereignty
Regarded as Problem for
Immediate Action.

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PARIS, February 1o.-The day
old French cabinet of veteran states
men listened to echoes of interna-
tional friction and red terrorism"
at home today and set out to achieve
domestic and foreign peace.
1t created a four-man committee
led by Premier CASTOR Doumergue
himself to act swiftly in the central
European situation, in which Austro-
German relations are a paramount
issue.
At its first meeting the "elder
statesmen" resolved to suppress mob
violence in the streets, which this
week took a toll of at least l6 dead
and thousands injured, and warned
that the French Parliament would be
dissolved unless it abandoned its use
less and irritating debates"
They tackled the most pressing
problems before them-a general
strike Monday which may paralyze
all vital services, Communist riots
last night, the internal fiscal situa-
tion, and the country-shaking Ba-
yonne Pawnshop scandal-and moved
toward early and decisive action.
Moscow Given Notice.
The Communist INSPIRED disorders
last night, when mobs and police en-
gagged in running skirmishes in work
ers' sections, several of fatalities were
reported. and public buildings were
beseiged. were understood to have
been politely called to Moscow's at
tention as endangering the good
Franco-Soviet relations and harming
trade of the two nations, which a re-
cent treaty intended to encourage.
Approval was given for the "direc-
torship," including Vice Premiers An
DIRE Tardieu and Edouard Herriot and
Minister Of Foreign Affairs Louis
Barthou.
Its first task will be to seek quick
solution of an international disarma-
ment impasSe resulting from Ger
many's demands for new arms and
the disquieting Austrian situation.
Plans to guard the capital and
other cente-s against further bloody
disorders during Mondays "anti-Fas-
cist' demonstration we're completed
at the three-hour cabinet session
one of the longest on record-in the
Quai DOrsay dining room
Fatalities during the rioting reached
l6 with the death today of two more
Of the victims in Tuesdays and We'd
nesday's disorders.
Federal Workers to Quit.
The French Federation of Labor
called the general strike More than
SOC, 900 civil servants and school teach
ers announced they would join the
demonstration and a complete tie-up
was thereby indicated of services like
railroads, gas. water, mail and elec-
tricity
Paris was peaceful today, but 1t was
a tranquility inspired partly by fear
the presence of 10000 soldiers here.
and augmented police force, as well
as the impending strike
In the pitched battles, which lasted
until early today 10000 rioters con-
Quoted running battles with officers
across burning barbados. Forty
policemen and hundreds of assailants
were hurt. Many were arrested.
Minister of Justice Henry Cheron
was instructed by the cabinet today
to prepare a law giving the country
a system of sure and quick justice
by curtailing "the privileges and juris-
diction OF functionaries. magistrates
and dignitaries. and the resulting de-
lays, which must disappear"
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The personnel of the Foreign Af-
fairs Committee was made possible
by the fact that Doumergue, Tardieu
and Herriot are without portfolios
and are able therefore to concentrate
with any ministry on any particular
problem.
An agreement will be sought with
Premier Mussolini of Italy and the
little entente-Bulgaria. Rumania and
Czechoslovakia-for the strong sup
port of Austria and a general solution
Of the Central European situation.
made tense by what Austria claims
is Germany's action against her SOW
ereignty.
The cabinet considers the contin-
uance of Austrian independence a
matter Of such importance that 1t
tranScends disarmament, war debts
and import quotas.
The president of the Labor Fed
Grafton, Leon Jouhaux. declared his
organization opposed any street mani
festations Monday. but police feared
Communists would stir up trouble on
larger scale than before.
A thorough shake-up of the judicial
system and a vigorous prosecution of
the $40,000.000 pawnshop failure
the immediate cause of the riots
was ordered at todays cabinet
meeting.
The answer of Eugene Frot, former
minister Of the interior, to critics of
his actions In ordering guards TO fire
on a mob In Tuesdays riot was made
public today. He said it was done as
last resort to prevent the burning
of the Chamber of Deputies.
He denied reports that machine
guns had been fired.
Il did my duty all humanity
possible to save Paris from the
anarchy Of repeated riots" he said.
M. Frot left by airplane for Morocco
yesterday. His colleagues burned his
lawyers robes and an attempt was
made to institute disbarment pro-
ceedinRs.