RIOTS IN FRANCE.
SERIOUS CONFLICT WITH GENDARMES. PARIS, August 18. trouble continues in France in connection with the carrying out of the Religious Associations Law. commissary, in executing decrees in one town, threatened to dynamite a school, which was barricaded. Tlie defenders replied, “Us too.” Ultimately, the building was entered through "a breach made in the wall. At Ponteroix tlie gendarmes charged the crowd, and a terrible melee ensued. Women were overthrown, and one had both arms broken. Priests were knocked clown and roughly handled. Thereupon the mob unhorsed the commit sary, and beat aYid kicked him until tw« priests were rescued. PARIS, August 19. . Disturbances are still taking place, m connection with the closing of religious schools in France. a Th e populace barricaded a school at Plouharnel, ana deluged the gendarmes and soldiers with mud and stones. The troops used scaling ladders, and the defenders threw burning faggots and trusses of straw upon them, compelling them twice to retreat. “
Eventually the defenders capitulated at nightfall, upon the advice of members of the Senate and the local Council.
Another serious conflict occurred at Saint Meon, in Brittany, between gendarmes armed with swords and peasantry with cudgels and stones. Twentyseven persons were injured.
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New Zealand Mail, 27 August 1902, Page 23
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