FRENCH FOOD RIOTS.
i,.,. (Received S, 9.50 a.m.) Paris, Septetmber 7. Women assailed the market at Dunkirk, and attempted to seize goods. Farmers’ wives resisted, and in a pitched battle the countrywomen were successful, and threw some of their assailants into the canal, whence they were rescued by the gendarmes. A meeting of ■ two thousand women at Troijes drafted a reasonable price list for provisions, and annexed goods when the tariff was refused.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 20, 8 September 1911, Page 6
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