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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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French police raided Communist party headquarters and offices nationwide on Saturday, seizing arms and ammunition after Friday's rioting in Toulon injured several officers.
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PARIS, (AP) French police cracked down hard on the Communists Saturday with a series of dawn raids on Red party headquarters and offices throughout the country. The Ministry of Interior said arms and ammunition were seized in a number of cities.
A raid on the headquarters of the Communist-led General Confederation of Labor in Toulon uncovered cases of cartridges loaded with buckshot, the ministry said. Toulon was the scene Friday night of bloody rioting in which several police were injured.
Steel-helmeted police armed with submachine guns pounced on Red offices throughout Paris in simultaneous raids, and searches in other sections were said to be still going on.
Red leaders apparently knew they were coming, however, and managed to burn most of their documents and reports. Police seized what remained.
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Paris
Event Date
Saturday
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several police injured in friday night rioting in toulon; arms and ammunition seized, including cases of buckshot cartridges; most documents burned by red leaders.
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French police conducted dawn raids on Communist party headquarters and offices throughout the country, including the General Confederation of Labor in Toulon and Red offices in Paris. The Ministry of Interior reported seizures of arms and ammunition in several cities following bloody rioting in Toulon the previous night. Police, armed with submachine guns, searched premises simultaneously, but Red leaders burned most documents beforehand.