TROUBLE IN PARIS.
NEW CANAL AND RIVER TOLLS. INFURIATED BARGEES. (Received 9.35 a.m.) United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 22. The Evening News’ Paris correspondent states that as a protest against the new canal and river tolls, bargees blockaded Paris and tied to boats steel cables forming a barrier across the Seine, stopping traffic. They defied the police to do tlieir worst. The authorities emphasised that their action deprived hundreds of factories of coal and raw materials. The infuriated bargees refused to listen and with their wives formed a lino armed with boat-hooks, repulsing the police, who appealed to the Navy, which sent a tug to break the cordon. The bargees were so threatening that the captain withdrew until a reinforced second tug of fifty marines and 200 police bargees riveted the boats and dropped anchors on all sides, hut the marines, using fire hoses, tumbled them into the Seine. The police simultaneously attacked m the rear, forcing surrender. Fifty arrests were made.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12429, 23 August 1933, Page 5
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