THE STRIKE IN FRANCE.
COLLISION WITH TROOPS.
•BARRICADES IN THE STREETS.
LIEUTENANT STONED TO
DEATH.
x»y Telegraph.— Association — Copyright. Pa?.ts ; April 19.
rttfiorg the co&Lccaners on strike in the Lens district of France, and the miners have several times come into collision with the troops.
One .thousand miners have prevented workers returning to the Denain foundaries and the manager .and officials are besieged.
One gendarme has been killed and three officers wounded in fighting that has taken place.
Barricades have been erected in the streets at Lens with railway sleepers. The dragoons failed in an attempt to destroy the barricades.
An army lieutenant has been fatally stoned.
Reinforcements have been ordered to the district. },
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13157, 21 April 1906, Page 5
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