Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-09
PARIS
Communists Threaten New Riots
After Outbreak of Street Fighting
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Tered heavy casualties in the
furious fighting as they charged
repeatedly to break up the
mobs. A communique said 1874
policemen were injured, 10
seriously.
Authorities said they could
give no idea of the number of
rioters injured but there prob
ably were several hundred.
They were in hospitals all over
the city, and they were treated
at special Red Cross posts.
Among the dead was jean
Pierre Bernard, Communist :
secretary of the 18th district
Of Paris. First reports indi-
Gated at least three women and
a 15-year-old boy were killed.
The Interior Ministry said all
the dead apparently were
crushed in the stampede. 1t
denied a charge by the Com
munist newspaper Humanite
that the police had fired on
the mob. The ministry said If
the police had fired, the num-
Der of dead undoubtedly would
have been greater.
The skirmishes ragged over
much of Eastern Paris with the
heaviest fighting on the vast
expanse of the historic Place
de la Bastille. birthplace of the
French Revolution in 1889.
Tough workers from the fac
tory districts bombarded the
helmeted police with paving
blocks ripped up from the
streets, gratings and iron bolts.
A barrage of bottles rained
down from windows and bal
comics.
At the height of the melee
the De Gaulle government
made an appeal for order and
warned: THE government can +
not lend itself to the double
game of the enemies of the
nation, which can only shake
republican institutions and re-
suit in anarchy"
Humanite claimed that Co.
900 persons stormed into the
streets in response to the Red
call for a dem o MS tion
against the terrorists it de- =,
nounced as "aSsaSsins" and
"fascists." Police set the figure
at 10000.
Trouble in Other Cities
While the battle ragged in
Paris other demonstrations
broke out in Lille, Clermont-
Ferrand, Lorient and other =
French cities. But no disorders ,
were reported from the prov
inceS. Il
Authorities reported SO ar t
rests were made in Paris and
ordered an investigation into )
the rioting. {
Cen de Gaulle, under Article I
16 of the constitution, can take
over virtual dictatorial powers
If he judges the country to be {
in danger. He limited in an ad-
dress to the nation last Monday {
that he might be forced to use {
emergency powers.
Gen. de Gaulle'S speech Mon
day was directed primarily
against "subversive and Grim r
inal" rightists attempting to
block his policy of putting AL c
geria on the path of independ- I
ence. But the government s
moved against the Communists +
after last nights riots.
Today's edition of Humanite
was seized along with most
party newspapers in the prov
inces and the fellow-travelinK
Paris Daily Liberation.
Three conservative morning
papers deplored the rioting.
Figaro said the demonstrators
had fallen into a trap set by
the Secret Army. Aurore said
the Communist agitators had
duped democrats of good ,
faith" who joined in the dem
onstration. Combat said the
government was in a delicate
dilemma-to accept or not the
indirect support of the extreme
left in its fight against the Sc ,
cret Army"
Across the Mediterranean in
Algeria, the daily slaughter
went on with European settlers !
and Moslems wreaking venge- ,
ance on each other. Eleven
persons were killed and Al
wounded by terrorists. The vic
Tins were both Europeans and
Moslems. ,
In Paris, a 19-year-old youth,
who is a cousin by marriage
of Premier Michael Debre, was
reported missing after his
father received an anonymous
telephone call that the Secret
Army was going to kidnap the
youth. The father, a univer-
sity professor named Laurent
Schwartz, is an outspoken OPP