A FRENCH DISTURBANCE.
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DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT ] PARIS, March, 20. There have been a number of revolutionary meetings in the A,ube district. In one case 10,000 armed Esoes made a demonstration, marching and carrying grapebaskets, ■ in i which there were boxes of assessment papers, which were afterwards publicly burned in a market place. This is the sequel to the people having decided to decline to pay taxes. The aggrieved people in another case have effaced the motto “Liberte, Egalite, Fraternity,” with red paint, from ed the public buildings. ■ The Premier, M. Monts, has been burned in effigy. . ' The trouble is very serious. The Municipal Councils of forty towns have resigned. '
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 March 1911, Page 6
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116A FRENCH DISTURBANCE. Greymouth Evening Star, 21 March 1911, Page 6
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