RIOTS IN FRANCE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1233, 15 September 1911, Page 5

RIOTS IN FRANCE.

CAVALRY CHARGE CROWDS

HOUSEWIVES THRASH A DEALER.

NINE MILLS FIRED. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Rec. September 14, 10.30 p.m.) Paris, September 14. Dear-food rioters, armed with scythes, inarched through tho Mcuse Valley, but the Dragoons dispersed them near Charlevillo. Similar encounters with the troops occurred' in other towns, particularly at Crcil, a town of 10,000 inhabitants, near Chantilly. . The troops were pelted with bricks and broken bottles, and fifteen soldiers were badly injured. Tho Riot Act was read and tho cavalry charged with drawn, swords and routed the crowd. Forty of the Creil rioters were injured. Incendiaries burned nine mills at Tourcoing, near Roubaix, containing cereals. The housewives at Lagny, on the Marne, thrashed a dealer for selling bad eggs. A hostile crowd at St. Pierre l'Eglise met some Socialist agitators at the station and severely beat them with sticks. Tho Confederation of Labour is circularising the conscripts urging them not to fire on civilians.

The Minister for Agriculture, M. Pams, reports that tho field corn is 23} per cent above that of 1910, sufficient to supply tho whole country.

Owing to the expensive fodder farmers are likely to prefer to market tlieir cattle, and honco the prico of meat is diminishing-