Show SOCIALIST TURNED ITO FIASCO BY FRENCH AUTHORITIES Infantry Dragoons and Republican Guards Aided the Police in Preventing Riot and Bloodshed i Paris Jan measures taken b by bythe tIle the turned into a fiasco time the Socialist gl gigantic antic lion In fa Ol of the tha complete enforce enforcement ment of the tho weekly law which had been planned to take talt J on the main boulevards today Under the French law parades without th time of the prefect who makes arrangements 8 In advance for po police lice protection are illegal but counting upon the complacency of the radical go gov the labor leaders disdained this formality Premier Clemenceau how however ever r realizing that a procession of such magnitude Would surely lead to trouble us as workmen on Frida Friday had wrecked the shops of several owners who would not comply with the law last Jast night notified the lead rs of the demonstration that It would not be permitted to talc take place Determined to March MarchAt At this the lea leaders were greatly In I censed and orders to their follow era to march in small smaIl groups under work worl mens flags to the Place de In Ia similar to th the plan ot of the St Petersburg workmen to the palace square of that city on Red Sunday The placing of troops and police how ever eyer rendered this Impossible and and eyer every where time the workmen found their routes blocked Practically the precautions of May 1st when the strikers ers vre over overawed overawed awed were repeated Infantry dragoons and Republican guards were massed massod In tJ te e Place de Ia and all the streets lending leading into it were sanded In or der to the cavalry to maneuver without th their lr horses slipping Many Broken Heads The net result of the attempt at a dem demonstration was much scores of small processions dispersed several incipient riots quelled and hundreds of workmen Worl meu arrested and released in a few hours Many ot or those arrested had brok broken en heads and several were seriously wounded rime rile marchers sang various revolutionary songs and there were nu numerous numerous crIes of Down Don with Clemen cean cea Prefect of Police Lepine who person personally all ally directed the police and troops was in inthe inthe the thick of half a doz dozen n rows His nis ac tion In orderIng the labor Jabor exchange closed early earb in the day deprived the demon demonstrators demonstrators of u a point for or rallying and l ly facilitated time the task of the police pollee The city became perfectly quiet during the evenIng |