CHURCH AND STATE.
Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright
PARIS, March 15.
(Received March 16, at 8.44 a.m.) A number of armed peasants attacked several detachments of soldiers who were drilling a t Chapelle J'Anson, believing (hat they were trying to force an entrance into the church. Several officers and soldiers were wounded. The troops retreated. The peasants placed three starving bears in the cathedral at Coquinac. An inspector, entering to make an inventory, was nearly clawed to death. The bears are still in possession.
M. Sarrien, the Premier, in Hie course of a speech in the Chamber of Deputies, said that tho separation law would be administered in a liberal spirit, but the Slate's conquests would be inflexibly defended.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13544, 17 March 1906, Page 7
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