FRANCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8130, 3 May 1906, Page 5

FRANCE.

MAY DAY IN PARIS. THE REPORTED CONSPIRACY. PEAR OF DISTURBANCES. PEOPLE LEAVING THE CITY. Received May 2. 9.4 a.m. PARIS, May 1. May Day, the approach of whioh has caused so much uneasiness owing to the fear of disturbances, has so far passed off quietly, although there is evidence of intense restrained excitement. Twenty thousand residents left Paris, and many of {.those who remained laid in an extensive store of provisions, and tne looal supplies of hams and preserves have been exhausted. A milch oow was led into one house in the Rue Royale. Another family, stocked living fish in a bath. The railway bridge in Pariß and tho cartridge factory at Sevres are guarded by soldiers. Several fresh arrests have been made on a charge of complicity in the rebellion and anarchists' plots. Several foreign anarohists were expelled during the morning. Lieutenant Fisaerand Delangi was arrested as he was addressing a meeting of Socialists. He urged his hearers to be quiet, but declared that he would not allow bloodshed or order the soldiers to fire.

One hundred and fifty arrests were made in the streets for refusing to move on. Documents sejzed at i the office of tne Petite Republique showed that several retired generals bad offered their services to the leaders of the alleged conspiracy.

AN EIGHT HOURS DAY FAVOURED.

60,000 TROOPS UNDER ARMS.

SERIOUS DISORDER AT NIGHT.

PATROLLING DRAGOONS STONED.

Received May 2, 11.26 p.m. LONDON, May 2

A good deal of effervescence occurred in Paris in connection with the Mayday celebrations. At raeotiogs of the various trades, resolutions were passed in favour of an eight hours day and Sunday rest. i

Though sixty thousand troops were under arms, comparatively few were visible.

Some thousands of people were arrested, chiefly for disobeying police orders to "move on." The greater number of these, however, have been released. There was more serious disorder towards nightfall. Crowds of roughs hooted, and in some oases stoned, the patrolling dragoons. There were frequent souffles with the police. Order was maintained without recourse to revolvers and swords.

A bomb was deposited neur the Austerlitz Bridge, but the fuse was extinguished without any harm being done.

Several sham bombs were found

Noisy demonstrations occurred at Brest, Bordeaux and Lyons, but there were no serious collisions with tho police.

AN EXPRESS TRAIN WRECKED

Received May 2, 8.41 a.m. PARIS. May 1.

The Paris-Havre express train was wrecked near Paris. The driver and guard were killed and several passengers injured.

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