THE FRENCH MARINE STRIKE.
r Telegraph, Press Association Copyright [ .» Paris, December 18. Owing to some gangs of labourers resuming work on the quays, the dockers interfered, and compelled the police to retreat. The Commissary of the police was ' wounded in the face during the j struggle. L The gendarmerie then charged and I dispersed the mob.. They arrested 15 persons who were armed with knives. The military occupy the thorough- { fares leading to the docks, and the free labourers are being protected. J A meeting of 8,000 naval reservists ) and dockers censured the Govern- ( ment, and demanded the withdrawal of the troops. They also threatened violence. In reply to the accusation of brut- | ality on the part of the police, the ( shipowners urge that the Government should punish the reservists, inasmuch as it is their deserts.
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Feilding Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 142, 15 December 1902, Page 2
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