PARIS UNDER PROHIBITION.
PROTEST AGAINST TAX. PARIS, March 4. Paris felt tin: hand of prohibition for two hours on Wednesday afternoon. Probably for the first time in the city's history it was impossible to buy a drink. 11m reason was that the cafes and bars had obeyed the orders of the merchant syndicates to close down in protest against the financial measures instituted' by Parliament, retroactive taxes and the taxing of city tradespeople more heavily than tiio farmer.
The cafes formed! only a small percentage of the total places which closed. The restaurants closed promptly at 2 o’clock, and it was almost a dead city from 2 to 4. Observance of the strike was everywhere rigorous, if half-hearted. A few of the great department stores remained' open. Extra police patrolled the streets, but no incidents were reported, except the bombardment of an intractable butcher shop with various missiles.
The tobacco shops, being under government license, could not shut down, but solved the problem by screening off the bars form the tobacco counters with a barricade of chairs.
The strike was observed in a majority of tile towns and cities throughout France.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17009, 16 April 1926, Page 9
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191PARIS UNDER PROHIBITION. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17009, 16 April 1926, Page 9
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