A PARIS MOB.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13661, 1 August 1908, Page 5

A PARIS MOB.

MARCH AND DEMONSTRATION. DISPERSED BY THE MILHIA. , flresrf Aissociafcion-By Telegi aph-Uopyng'U Received 11.50 p.m., July 31st. PARIS, July 31. Owing to allegations ' that the authorities had tieated tho strikers in the sandpits of Draveil, Vigneux, harshly, the workmen of-the building and allied trades in Paris struck for the day, oiganised a monster demolish ation, and proceeded to Vigneaux. The chief organiser, named Gieffuclhes, a'lead ; ng official of the general confederation of labour, had issued a manifesto frankly describing the demoiistiation as prepaiatory to a. skirmish in the coming war between the -worker and "the parasite (meaning the capitalist).

Anticipating an anarchical outbreak two cavalry divisions- were sent to afisKt the gendarmerie and police of the Vigneaux district.

, The 4000 Parisian strikers trudged thither and after speeches a laige group pre ceded by a red flag, started towards Meluh.

Then they came into contact with a detachment of cavalry. Greeting them with cries of " Down with the Arruy," stones were thrown and sticks were blandished to frighten the horses. After a fruitless parley following pistol shots from the rioters, the soldiers struck them with the flat of their sabres, ,the crowd then dispersing.

SEVERE FIGHTING. PARIS, July 31. r Simultaneously another, bedy wai> pievented fiom using a bamcade, the dia. goons and cuirassierb puisuing them, and, dismounting, foughL their way up to the lailwdy eanbankmciit. A lrand to hand encounter at kin mipioviised baincade of tmcks was the most senous conflict. Later in the mam sheet of Villenenve a barricade consisting of timber and chains was put acioss the street* Shots were fired from the barricade, and also from windows and roofs of hoiioe*, besides showers* of btones and bottl«=.

The Piefect of the Department tele giaphed for reinfcicemnils, deckling that the stnkeis were matter of the situation. Aftei vain appeals to the noters and filing four times m the air, the tioops fiied a volley, wounded several persons, and-lulling two. Later three othera-suc-eumbed. About twenty -«ero injured in the sabie charges A bullet grazed a general's foot, and another hrt <i 'colonel in tthe Bhoulder. Stones 'and shots huit twenty -soldieis.M. Clemenceau* announces that a judicial ,inq.uiry s wiirbe held,into the conduct of those 1 guilty of rebellion- against the forces of the State, - and the instigators of the not. ■ v