French Bargees’ Barrage Broken
' ATTEMPTED SETTLEMENT United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. PARIS, Aug. 25. Directing a secretly-concentrated force of a hundred mounted police and forty firemen equipped with four mo-tor-pumps and two tugs manned by 50 bluejackets, the Prefect of tho Seine-et-Oise Department, broke the barrage of three rows of barges at Conflans. A boarding party cut cables linking sixty barges, which tho tugs then towed to a backwater. Bargees assisted the tugs on the Prefect’s promise to place their grievances before the Government. The Prefect now faces the problem of dispersing -the main barrage at Eragno, where strikers threaten to fill their barges with cement and sink them in the River Oise.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7246, 28 August 1933, Page 7
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114French Bargees’ Barrage Broken Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7246, 28 August 1933, Page 7
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