COUNTRY UNDER MILITARY CONTROL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 30 November 1938, Page 7

COUNTRY UNDER MILITARY CONTROL

GOVERNMENT READY FOR ANY EMERGENCY FOREIGNERS ARRESTED FOR SPREADING PROPOGANDA (Received 30th November. 12.45 p.m > PARIS. 29th November. The whole of France 10-night and until the agitation ceases, is under military control and virtually on a war-time footing. The Government freely requisitioned property and labour throughout the nation, which means that strikers are liable to heavy penalties. Everybody knows these cannot be inflicted on huge masses, nevertheless, fear is a potent weapon. The Government actually set the law in motion against officials of the Railwaymen’s Union for issuing a strike order after promulgation of the decree requisitioning the railways, but it has had no effect thus far on the union’s determination to carry on the strike. The Government is ready for any emergency. Troops reinforced by tanks and armoured cars are drawn up on the parade ground in the Military School in the centre of Paris. Troops are heavily guarding twenty factories at Valenciennts and elsewhere. CLASH WITH POLICE A clash with the police occurred at Raismes, where 1000 attempted to free six who were arrested for trying to prevent men going to work. The police arrested many foreigners spreading propaganda in mines and factories. M. Leon Jouhaux. leader of the trades union movement, received a telegram from the British Independent Labour Party expressing solidarity. LOSS IN WAGES The management of the Renault works stated that strikers caused £II.OOO damage and are losing £33.000 wages daily