THE COMING WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 183, 1 August 1908, Page 5

THE COMING WAR.

&ASOTTR AGAXKST CAPITAL. A PBELIMINABY SKXRMISH. FATAL CONFLICT IN PAHIS. PARIS, July 31Owing to allegations that the attthoriad treated, strikers in the sandpits at t Draveil and Vigneanx harshly, the I "orkmen b. the building and allied trades I a Paris struck for a- day, and organised; monster demanstraticn, proceeding to "igneaux. The chief organiser, named GrefuueHies,. leading- official of tie General Conederation of Labour, bad issued a manlesto frankly describing the demonstraion a≤ a preparatory skirmish in the oniing war between the worker and the ■parasite." meaning the capitalist. Anticipating an anarchist outbreak.: wo cavalry divisions were sent to assist j he gendarmerie in the Vigneaux district, •our thousand Parisian strikers trudged :iiither. and, after speeches, a large rroup, preceded by men waving red flags, '■ tarted towards ilelun, and came, in conact with detachments of 'cavalry, greet- j ng them witn cries of "Down with the irmy! - ' Stones were thrown and sticks brandished to frighten the horses. After a fruitless parley, and following ;onie pistol shots from the rioters, the :o Idlers charged them and. struck them vith the flat of their sabres, speedily dia- j jesina , the procession. Smultaaieously with the cavalry' :harge, another body was prevented from ising a barricade. Bodies of dragoons md cuirassiers pursued them and, disnounting. fought their way up a railway embankment, and a hand-to-hand encounter took pfcice over an improvised Darricade of trucks. The most serious conflict occurred later in the main street. A barricade consisting of timber and chains was put icross the street, and shots were fired from the barricades and also from winiows and roofs of houses, besides showers it atones and bottles. The Prefect of the Department teleiraphed for reinforcements,declaring that the strikers were masters of the situation. After vain appeals to the rioters, and firing four times into the arr, the troops fired a volley and wounded several and killed two outright, zh TeP . o f t^e wounded succumbing shortly afterwards. About twenty were injured in sabre charges. A buj'let grazed a general on the foct. another nit a cclonel on the shoulder. Twenty of the solc.'ers were wounded. The Premier. M. Clemenceau. has announced that a judicial inquiry will be held into tile conduct of those guilty of i rebellion against the forces of the State and the instigators. I CONF2DEBATIO3TS MANIFESTO. IaUTATIOW tTKGEIS. (Received 8.25 a.m.) PAKIS. July 31. The General Confederation of Labour has issued a manifesto urging all unions to imitate the builders" ta-etic-s as a protest against the Governmen&'s ferocious method.-! of repression. The Paris *Press ola-mours for a suppression of the General Confederation of Labour, on the ground that it is a seditious organisation. i