FRENCH STRIKE OVER.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 246, 17 October 1910, Page 5

FRENCH STRIKE OVER.

SMASHED BY BRIAND.

STRIKERS RESUME WORK.

GOVERNMENT'S FlilM STAND.

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.)

PARIS, October IS. M. Briand (Premier) has smashed the strike. The strike has practically ended. ••{ The masons and bricklayers in Paris struck yesterday, and marched in procession. The police stopped the processions, and a conflict ensued. Missiles were thrown and injured several police. Some of the rioters were hurt. rjtfg The strikers resumed work gradually: 1 There were a number of sporadic movements in other trades' in sympathy with the railwaymen, but they were not disquieting in face of the Government's firmness. Troops dispersed a gathering of 15,000 builders and navvies, who were agitating for a nine hours' day at the existing rate of pay. A few harmless shots were exchanged. MINOR OUTRAGES. SERVICES BACK TO NORMAL (Received 8.20 a.m.) PARIS, October 16. A number of minor outrages have occurred in France, including pouring oil on the rails and tampering with the signals, but the services are practically normal. Tlie entire line from Paris to the Spanish frontier is guarded by troops. Fourteen strikers in Paris have been sentenced to terms ranging from a week to a fortnight's imprisonment for abusive language. A PEASANT CONSPIRACY. TO DESTKOY LUTES AND BRIDGES. (Received 8.15 a.m.) PARIS, October 16. The Ministry for the Interior has discovered a sabotage (or peasant conspiracy) in Paris, including the destruction of lines, bridges, rivers, and locks. Military occupation of the selected points prevented, the outbreak. The Government threatened heavy penalties when the organisers are discovered. A dynamite bomb exploded on the line between Breteuil and Ailly-sur-Norje. A ■watchman stopped the Calais express half a mile from the scene of the outrage. BOMB IN THE RUE BERRI (Received 8.22 a.m.) PARIS, October 16. It is-believed that the bomb which was thrown in the Rue Berri on Thursday Wacr- directed fgainst the'life of a prominent magistrate, who has been pronouncing severe sentences against the.strikers. He was absent at the time of the explosion.