, 1935-08-09
TROOPS READY.
TO TERMINATE
FRENCH RIOTS
git o Successful
I'm Starting Street
Fights I'm Several
Districts

ready but out OF sight. the French
government Friday ordered police
forces To clean up agitation cen
ters.
Premier Pierre Laval ordered the
projects Of su Frances So depart
ments to confer with him imme-
diately. II IVES the first such con-
ference In the history OF the French
republic.
"A somewhat easier attitude pre-
vailed as the Iaborers I'm the gov
eminent arsenals nc Tuulon and
Brest went back TO work and the
French line employees ct La Havre
voted to end their strike.
The object OF the projects con-
ference was understood to be the
development or a more favorable
attitude on the part of government
employees to pay cuts which the
government deems necessary.
Agitators Warned
Government officials said the
riots Of the last few days which
reached On climax Thursday night In
Toulon, seemed To be organized
disorders" but unlikely TO con-
tinue." The government warned
agitators to be quiet but instructed
the troops, held ready for action, 10
remain In the background.
A vast network Of police was
thrown over Toulon's riot scenes
and a house-to-hOuse search Fri
day brought 40 arrests and the dis
cCvery OF many wounded.
Police said they seized n regular
arsenal" In one house IN Toulon
where two wounded were hiding.
They brought out many small arms,
several gas masks, and n few sub
machine guns.
The police everywhere were In
Btructed To watch agitators and to
be firm but to avoid shooting. The
authorities mt Toulon said that the
Euards held their fire even when
We mob was shooting Thursday
might.
Premier Laval refused any COM
promise I'm the shipping strike. but
the French line agreed to compen-
safe the sailors for their pay cuts,
decrced by the government. The
end Of the strike enabled the steam
ship Champaign to sail from lie
Havre at 2 p. m-two days late
and the steamships Colombo and
Lafayette TO depart on schedule.
Holds 10 Plan
Regardless OF complRintsa and
protests. the premier held firmly to
his deflation program. He assembled
the projects TO insure uniform and
speedy application of his program
and to explain how the reduction
OF incomes was compensated by low
er costs of living and how all the
government measures were intend
&C to revive business and to avert
N final crisis.
Paris had it's own little midnight
battle outside a communist meet
ing, where a score Of political ad-
versaries waylaid and beat four
communists. Two were taken 10 n
hospital
Two persons were known to have
been killed In the wild night OF
rioting In Toulon.
Two hundred die-hard shipyard
workers at Brest again fought mo-
bile guards after burying q COM
rade who was killed there In riots
Tuesday. The guards charged with
particular violence I'm an effort TO
make Il a clash to end clashes. One
person was injured seriously.
Shipyard workers demonstrated
at Cherbourg.
Woman Leads Riot
AT Toulon, Frances principal
Mediterranean naval port. rioters
led by a woman In a red dress
swept through the center Of the
city into the waterfront section
Thursday night. shooting and hurl-
ing stones at police and guards.
Harricades were erected in the
y sheets. Often. as the rioters were
dispersed I'm one street, they ran to
another. some firing almost point
blank mt the guards pursuing them.
One police official was near death
IN q hospital with q bullet In his
abdomen.
TIE crowds, originally estimated
nc less than 1000, formed when the
workers quit the arsenal after be-
ting thwarted In an attempt to
demonstrate there. As the night
bore on, their numbers were in
creased by bands Of young COM
munists. Il
Acting Mayor Conte was injured