The Archive · 1939

300 Arrested in Paris

Demonstrations

Leftists Demand Opening of Spanish Frontier Paris, Jan. 28.

Leftist demonstrators ran through the streets here this afternoon and keld a demonstration demanding the reopening of the Franco-Spanish Pyreneean frontier. Three hundred demonstrators were arrested by the Police, who had to take extensive measures to disperse the massed throngs.

Among those taken into custody was M. Marceau Pivert, former leader of the Socialist Party's left wing and now head of the Farmer-Labour Socialist Party. The latter group is an extreme leftist Socialist group formed of men who broke away from the parent Socialist Party. All arrested by the police were held only a short while, being released after preliminary—investigation.—Havas.

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