Evening star., 1935-07-19
R|OT|NG SPREADS
AS [AvAL'S FOES
CLASH WITH POLICE
Mounted officers RepulSe
Crowds in Streets
of Paris.
DISPUTE OVER CUTS
IN SALARIES CAUSE
"Internationale" Heard as Thou
sands Demand Premier Quit
Post-Many Flee Scene.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, July l9.-F1ying squads OF
police smashed into demonstrators in
the Place de rOpera today. and q
number OF men we're seen struck down
Several Thousand demonstrators
many with clenched fists raised ir
Communists salutes. had swarmec
into the Place de rOpera, shouting
Police With US! Laval resign!"
The surge Of demonstrators smashed
into crowds of frightened women shop
pers at a department store on one
of the corners of the famous Partisan
square.
Hundreds on Guard.
Despite the onrush, police showed
little activity in barring the stream OF
demonstrators toward the main por-
ton of the place. but hundreds of mo-
bile guards with carbines trooped their
horses across the street and blocked
the way.
The demonstration, against salary
and pension cuts as ordered by Premier
Laval, had been banned by the police
All through the day curious hun
dreds had walked through the Place
de rOpera. but the police had kept
them moving. Suddenly. at about 6
pm, the place was filled with thou
sands of demonstrators. who roared
out the Communist song "Interna-
tionale" and raised their fists in the
Communist salute as they sang.
The fighting suddenly became gen.
eral all around the opera as police
tried to stop the demonstration.
The demonstrators chanted Our
salaries!" and the rhythm Of the
chant alternated with the words OF
the "Internationale" on ali sides oi
the famous square.
Leading agitators were arrested by
the police, Who augmented by mobile
guards. moved in to euench the dis
turbance, which the government hao
banned.
Women Are Arrested.
A number of women were among
those arrested
The mounted guards shortly after
$50 pm. began trotting their horses
ina circle back OF the opera. the
hoofs of their mounts steadily forcing
the crowd to retreat.
Policemen. in flying wedge forma :
ton. drove into the spectators on foot
captured agitators and pulled them
out.
Actual fighting began at about Z
pm, when police were seen to pummel
those who resisted as one crowd of
hundreds Of persons was routed and
driven into the Place Gallon, close
to the Opera.
Women yelled from windows, work.
ing girls. homeward bound after their
day in the shop. were caught in the
crowd and cried and screamed
Some of these girls we're seen rum
ming aimlessly in efforts to escape from
the opposing forces of demonstrators
and police.
AS the demonstrators marched into
the place. many of them carried their
fists aloft in the Communist salute.
They shouted: Police with us!
Laval resigns!"
Hundreds were arrested in the con-
tinuous series of police dashes into
the crowds. Every pair of policemen
or guards who went in to the mass
of humanity came out with a prisoner.
The big proportion of the members
of the crowd offered no resistance.
merely shouting against the govern
mental DEGREES, singing the "Interna-
tionale" and retreating when the
police charged.
Suddenly mobile police guards in
motor trucks started to pour into the
square, augmenting the heavy force
already there. The truck motors
roared as the guards streamed down
the avenues leading into the Place
de L'Opera.
Great crowds of demonstrators we're
forced off the square and into the
boulevards. They cried: "On to the
Place de La Concorde!"