FOOD RIOTS IN FRANCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14819, 24 October 1911, Page 9

FOOD RIOTS IN FRANCE.

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[from our OWN correspondent.] London, September 15. NEW ZeaLANDERS who have recently returned from the North of France say that the dear-food riots there will in time have the effect of breaking down the embargo on the importation of frozen meat. Whether the new market is secured by New Zealand or the Argentine does not much matter, because if Argentine meat o-oes there, New Zealand will have to make up the supplies in the English market Trie price of fresh meat in Paris is practically prohibitive to the poorer classes, and severe rioting has taken place. At Cherbourg the troops had to be called in at night to the . rescue of the police, who were being maltreated by the mob. The market at St. Etienne was stormed after the rioters had broken through a cavalry cordon. Eggs, fruit, cheese and butter were emptied out of the baskets on the ground, and trampled upon A few arrests were made. Some of the worst vmtinfr is reported from Pont-a-Mousson, nSVancy? where about 5000 or 6000 rioters forced the cordons of police and dragoons, and severely handled the special coSissary of police and several gendarmes who tried to rescue him. SevenrteTSrests were made and more troops w 'ere sent for in the night.. ,;,,■- (