Evening star., 1935-02-06
VIOLENCE MARKS
PARIS RIOT FETE
Youths Clash With Police
as Services Honor
Memory of Dead.

(Copyright, 1885, by the Associated Press)
PARIS, February 6.-Violence fol-
lowed today on religious observance
OF the first anniversary Of bloody
Tuesday" as shouting youths clsshed
with police within sight of Notre
Dame Cathedral.
Thousands Of young men, most OF
them in uniform, chanted the Mar
French!" They withstood a police
charge in the Place st. Michael, but
police dubbed them so thoroughly that
they kept moving.
The clash, in which many of the
young men struck down their op-
ponents with loaded canes, occurred
just after an unpleasant incident at
Notre Dame Cathedral. where Premier
Pierre-Etienne Flandin and Prefect
OF Police Langeron were hiSSed and
jeered as they entered and left the
religious service in memory Of the l9
persons who died a year ago today
in riots.
Flandin Also Kissed.
At the close of the solemn rites, a
group of 80 or 40 persons shouted
there goes the assassin!" as the
prefect of police walked down the
aisle with Premier Flandin and ap-
preached the church'S massive doors.
They continued to shout epithets,
some of which were coupled with
Flandin'S name, but their calls were
drowned by the noise of the excited
crowd leaving the church
Outside, a solid barrier Of police
kept the multitudes away from the
steps and protected the egress of the
premier.
The fear of an attack on Flandin
caused furry among the police
when a man broke through their
lines and ran toward the premier.
He was arrested, but told the au-
thorities he wished only to tell the
chief of government of the country's
troubles. He was unarmed.
AS the premier's car left, the
royalist Kings henchmen' shouted:
France for the French! On to the
Place de la Concorde! Down with the
assassins!"
Youths Challenge Police.
The great crowds massed around
the cathedral threatened several
times to sweep the police lines apart
and, many times the police were on
the point of charging. Finally the
clash came only when the shouting
youths blocked the Place st. Michel
and refused to move.
Part of the cathedral crowd moved
slowly toward the Place de Ia Con-
corde, where they encountered ad-
ditional guards.
In the meantime, marching columns
Of Royalist and other students threat
ened trouble around the Sorbonne.
The Royalists tore down Socialist post
ers. Leftist groups quickly retaliated
by tearing down manifestos printed by
the Rightists. They also tore down
government posters which ordered uni
versity classes suspended.
A blanket of flowers marked the
imaginary Unknown Rioters Tomb. y
before which the Parisians came to
doff their hats in salute and stand mo-
mentarily in silent homage in the
Place de Ia Cesacorde.
Many race WreatnS.
BY afternoon long double line of
persons bearing clusters of blossoms
had congregated around the fountain
in the center Of the Place de la Con-
corde. As they slowly passed the spot
facing the Chamber of Deputies, across
the Seine, they reverently laid their
floral offerings in heap in memory
Of those who died under police bullets
as they rioted against "a corrupt gov
ernment" and the government ma
chinery which had permitted the Sta
visky scandal.
The victims blood was symbolized
IN the square by splashes of red paint
on lamp posts and statues.
Hundreds Of police watched the
flower bearers from distance. while
q few Of them kept the crowd moving.
The government, grimly determined
to preserve order, had $4,000 police,
10000 mobile guards and $4,000 troops
at its command to be called out in any
emergency. F1andin Cancelled all en-
gagements to devote himself exclusive
ly to keeping in touch with the situa-
ton.