PARIS COMMUNISTS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1928, Page 5

PARIS COMMUNISTS

1,500 ARRESTED,

(United Press Association—By Electric

Telegraph—Copyright-', PARIS, Oct. 25. Triple lines of police and City Guards formed a cdrdon round the Vincennes Town Hall, where lay the 19 flag-cover-ed coffins, of the victims of the Paris building collapse of October 18th. The police and guards promptly sotted out from the crowd Communists who had declared that they would not permit any official to attend the funeral. Plain-clothes men, as thousands of workers poured out of the underground railway station discreetly tapped the “Reds” on the shoulder, whispering: “This way!” The unsuspecting Communists docilely obeyed. They were led to the old fortifications and then detained. Any resisters were hustled voff to the Police Station. The police used a cafe destined for allowing the Reds to report themselves therein and,, taking them into custody as they made their exit. The funeral was carried out with all decorum, under the surveillance of a wirelessly equipped police aeroplane, which enabled motor lorries of police and armed guards to forestall the Communists lit the strategical points,, thus preventing any rush tactics. Those detained numbered fifteen hundred, of whom fifty were armed. '