THE COAL STRIKE IN FRANCE.
RIOT OF, DUNKIRK DOCKERS.
BARKICADES IN THE STREETS,
United Presa Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received October 25th, 12.58 a.m.)
PARIS, October 24.
The dockers at Dunkirk pillaged the shops, erected barricades, and afterwards set fire to them, threw merchandise into the harbour, attacked newspaper other offices, and pillaged and set fire to a coal merchant's residence. (
The rioters, who were armed with sticks, shovels, and stones, came into conflict with the polke. The Chief of Police had .his skull fractured, and every Commissary of the force and some of the miHtarv were wounded.
Martial law was proclaimed. . The cavalry charged the mob, and killed two.
Ultimately arrangements were made for the discharge of cargoes to-day, excepting coal. ,
AN APPEAL FOR ARBITRATION (Received October 25th, 1.2 a.m>)
PARIS, October 24.
M. Jaures, during a debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the strike, appealed to the Government amid cheers to emulate Pieeident's Roosevelt's conciliatory action.
M. Coombes, the Premier, in response, moved a resolution favouring the reference of tie question to arbitration. He announced that he would confer with the coal owners and miners.
CABLE NEWS.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11413, 25 October 1902, Page 7
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