FOOD RIOTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 23, 12 September 1911, Page 5

FOOD RIOTS.

A SERIOUS POSITION. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association, Paris, September 11. The president of tne Municipal Council conferred with the Caterers’ Union and arranged for tho placing of tallies in the market and tho price to be drawn up daily and rigidly enforced. . . T’Jic Reutpayers’ Association, with five thousand members, announces a strike against Die threatened rise oi rent in Paris. Die first step 1 1 lie taken is the refusal to pay rent in advance. 1 The situation at Rououx continues serious. Rioters looted - provision shops, erected barricades, and stretched wire across the streets to trip tlio cavalry. They climbed the lump posts and extinguished the lights; and' icmoved the plates covering- tho manholes and drains in ‘•rdo.v to prevent, the soldiers charging them. Theic were many artists, and several soldiers injured by si.me-t.irowing. THE POSITION IN RUSSIA. St. Petersburg, September 11. Tho rise in the pace of necessaries of life has in some cases am-,noted to .30 per cent, since in-v geiicisl stiike of 1905. >