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Show POLICE SMASH RIOTSJH TUNIS TUNIS. Jan. I (UP) Police today to-day amaahed acattarad Arab demon-atrmtlona demon-atrmtlona which threatened to mar an exchange of pledgee between Premier Pre-mier Edouard Daladlar and Sidi Ahmed, bey of tunla. to hold thka key outpost of the French empire againet any foreign attack. Crowda of Pan-Arab natlonallaU ware diaperaed by mounted police aa Daladier left the Bardo palace after hia flrat meeting with the bey. The nationaJlete' program caUa for greater degree of self-government. The demonatratora eought to unroll un-roll bannera demanding amnesty aad liberation for their leadara who were imprisoned after disturbances here but April, when scores were shot by French police during a demonstration. dem-onstration. At tha Bardo palace, which la outeide the elty, the 76-year-old bey and the premier exchanged pledges of fidelity. The bey aaid: "You can be aura that all Tunisians Tu-nisians will, If it la aver necesaary, rallr to France.' |