RIOT IN FRANCE.
CONFLICT BETWEEN WOEKMEN
AND TROOPS.
A FEROCIOUS CHARGE.
WOMEN KILLED AND MUTILATED. [press association.] Paris, September 12. A serious affray is reported as having taken place at Limoges, the capital of the Department Upper Vienne, between navvies out on strike and the police.
The latter attempted to disperse a meeting being held by the navvies, but were set upon and roughly used by them. Women took part in the affair, and assisted the navvies by throwing boiling water on the police.
The troops were called out, but not before the police had been disarmed and severely beaten.
The military ferociously charged the mob with fixed bayonets, and a large number of rioters were fearfully wounded.
Several women were killed and others terribly mutilated by bayonets.
Eventually the military succeeded in quelling the disturbance and restoring order.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9160, 15 September 1888, Page 5
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