BARGEES' THREAT.
Block Oise By Sinking Their Craft. BARRAGE BROKEN UP. (Received 12 noon.) PARIS, August 25. Directing secretly a concentrated force of 100 mounted police, 40 firemen equipped with four motor pumps and two tugs manned with 50 bluejackets, the Prefect of the Seine et Oise broke the barrage of three rows of barges at Conflans. A boarding party cut the cables linking 60 barges, which tugs towed to a backwater.
The bargees assisted the tugs on the Prefect's promise to place their grievances before the Government. The Prefect now faces the problem of dispersing the main barrage at Eragno, where the strikers threaten to iill the barges with cement and sink them in the Oise.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 201, 26 August 1933, Page 9
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117BARGEES' THREAT. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 201, 26 August 1933, Page 9
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