FRENCH RAILWAY STRIKE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10587, 18 October 1910, Page 4

FRENCH RAILWAY STRIKE.

[By Eleotbio" Teleokaph—Coryuiom'. J ,-,:■*} **f -- -* -'." r» - - ~ (Pbb Press Association.) Receiveff October 18, at 0 5 rum. - . ",jj. , Paris, October 17. .-A' bohib exploded at midnight outside' '-the residence of M. Massard, a 1 councilloE. Thiee persons Tggjte -ifljtired. X'onsidei able damage waVlcaused /to .property. - '■« The' police Tauhid "the ofnee oi the Newspaper 1 Libertaire, and miestcd ' Dulac-> (editor) and Mai tin'(manager). T<h"e£. discovered, '.three pots- exactly "sinjilar"?io" therjn'fornnl machine found iiMiTie Raie- Bern. •iiWire-cutting, tampeimg with sigon the rails, and attacking irainsi with revolveis are being practised on an. unprecedented scale. f3The</polio& state that- great numbers of\~revolveis uere recentlv purchased. ""One-shop sold 400 in one day. J-TKe. Minister (M. Coar) st.ttes that 13r*5ut of every-13 railway men mime '■"diktely obeyed, UlFhe - Ministry ,of Finance estimates that -the "strike cost the countrj eleven millions, sterling ; (The directors have decided to establish* a-- minimum wage of iive fiancs for Parisian railwaymen in January. Re,ce>'ved'October 18, at 10.15 a m. 'J~ . ~ ' Paris, October 17 ',Krosln cases of wanton damage to railways have oceuiied, and tlieie have been several moie bomb explosions without senous lesults. eir&Sr. the Beziers station, but weic ic-r polled by the, police.