DEAR FOOD.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15717, 9 September 1911, Page 9

DEAR FOOD.

THE RIOTS IN FRANCE. tt Pros-, Aff-oriation —By Electrio U " Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, September 7. Women assailed the market at Dunkirk and attempted to seize the goods offered. The farmers’ wives resisted, and in a pitched battle tho country-v.-oirm: ware successful and threw some of their assailants into tho canal, ivhe.'ce they were rescued by gendarmes. A mealing of 2000 women at Troyes drafted a reasonable price list for provisions. and annexed tho goods when the tariff was refused. action of the french cabinet. facilities for importation . OF CATTLE. cheap housing for workers. (Received September 8, 11.15 p.m.) PARIS, September 8. The Cabinet approved of communes participating in enterprises of co-opor-ative butchers and bakers. It sanctioned facilities for the importation of colonial cattle, with revision of the prohibition against certain classes of foreign cattle, extension to regriferating establishments of the exemptions accorded bonded warehouses, and the restriction of forago exportation. It also endorsed M. Caillaux’s scheme of cheap housing to combat excessive rents. AN ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN. LONDON, September 8. Sir George Reid is inaugurating active advertising of Australian products in France, Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium in view of tho dear food outcry. He is arranging many illustrated articles for publication in French papers.