Labour Troubles in France.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXV, Issue 3850, 3 August 1908, Page 3

Labour Troubles in France.

CABLEGRAMS.

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HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT. Paris, August 1. Simultaneously with the cavalry charge, another body was prevented from using a barricade. Bodies of dragoons and cuirassiers pursued them, and dismounting, fought their way up a railway embankment, and a hand-to-hand encounter took place over an improvised barricade of trucks. The most serious conflict occurred later in the main street. A barricade consisting of timber and chains, was put across the street, and shots were fired from the barricades and also from windows and roofs of houses, besides showers of stones and bottles. The Prefect of the Department telegraphed for reinforcements, declaring that the strikers were masters of the situation. After vain appeals to the rioters, and firing four times in the air, the troops fired a volley and wounded several and killed two outright, three of the wounded succumbing shortly afterwards. About twenty were injured in sabre charges. A bullet grazed a general on the foot, another hit a colonel on the shoulder. Twenty of the soldiers were wounded. The Premier, M. Clemenceau, has annnouiiced that a judicial inquiry will be held into the conduct of those [ guilty of rebellion against the forces of the State and the instigators.