FIGHTING AT TOULON.
ASSISTANT-MAYOR GRAVELY INJURED. MILITARY & NAVAL FORCES ENGAGED. (Received Friday, 7.45 p.m.) LONDON, August 9. The latest reports from Toulon give five dead and 200 injured. Amongst the injured is M. Conte, Assistant-Mayor, whom demonstrators attacked and knocked unconscious. He was admitted to hospital in a grave condition. Street skirmishes continued until two a.m. when order was practically restored. Cavalry are patrolling the streets. A batallion of Senegalese troops is also on guard. Naval searchlights were utilised io reveal snipers hiding on roofs and Senegalese sharpshooters were called in to dislodge them.
THE MARITIME DISPUTE. (Received Friday, 7.25 p.m.) PARIS, August 9. The Champlain has not departed from Havre because she lacks part of her crew who will meet later to-day to 'decide whether their delegates were too conciliatory when they conferred with M. Bertrand (Minister of Merchant Marine).
At Brest the extremists this evening came into collision with the Mobile Guards and one man was injured. At L’Orient demonstrators marched through the streets. The police keot out of sight.
(Other messages dealing with events in France appear on page 3.)
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Wairarapa Age, 10 August 1935, Page 5
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