CHURCH AND STATE IN FRANCE.
SEMINARY CARRIED BY
STORM.
MA NY PEOPLE INJURED.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.— right. Paris, January 21. Officials, supported by troops and gendarmes, appeared at the seminary at Reaupreau, near Nantes, on Saturday, for the purpose of expelling the inmates, under the associations law.
A crowd of 300 persons had gathered within the grounds to prevent an entrance to the seminary, and, throwing stones, injured the colonel commanding the troops and others.
Thereupon the soldiers used dynamite to blow up the gate leading to the gardens, and rushing in carried the seminary by storm.
One hundred and fifty of the defend were injured in the affair, and 12 were arrested.
The associations law was passed in 1901. to 'heck the great ami growing power of lie religious associations. It. provides, under penalty of dissolution, that, associations must lie registered and make public 1 heir articles of association ami rules of procedure. The measure also limits the property that an association may hold to "that necessary for the object which they tnav have in view."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13393, 23 January 1907, Page 7
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