Riot at a Race Meeting. THE FRENCH PRESIDENT INSULTED.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 5, 8 June 1899, Page 4

Riot at a Race Meeting. THE FRENCH PRESIDENT INSULTED.

Paris, June 5,' The Royalists, patriots and antisemites, weaving Boulrtngist catenations, 1 organiseddemonstrations at the races at Auteil., M. Joseph LasieW' anti-semite deputy for Gen and, and M. Fermin Faurt?, deputy for Algeria, were the ringleaders, ftj. Lon bet's arrival" 1 was the signal for hi.oting. and(" cries of "l^ llama," "Down witfj Loubet," "Vive l'Armee." Many arrests vvcre made, incHulins that of aman who was nishitig a calnia- c containing Nationntfsfes in front and behind the President stand dming the races. J^l. Dp RoUlede and the army were cheered. Amidst cotitinncujf whistling and hooting, a free fight pccurred. , Thirt y x per ons were arrested, _ {Several policemen wn'& severely injured while d^feciding the PresidentiaU«t t,nd. Generals Logei and Brngere seized and disaun'd Count -Chrstini, a - member of' t ! ie Fr'encli Steeplechase Society, for striking at M Lonbet with a wa'k nj stick. The afe&ajlant " actually Struck the President's hat. M. Loubet calmly conversed with M. Dupny during ' the d stiirbance. The" vast majority at a . chVance ?rhe red M. Loubet. Further fights ensued, and arrests were made, The ,Rjpubl,cau Guard stfri onnded the stand, cheering the ground at the re t u\ .Subsequently M. i)upny and Generals Zuiiinden and.B^illond accompanied M. Loubet, to the rai]-w ay station amid ye'ls and cheeis. The Cabinet subsequently held a two hours' sitting and r> solved to take energetic measures, .Over 150 i arrests were effected, including many Koyalists. The Covj rament being forewarned, sent Major Marchanci ! quietly away.

■June 6. A colonel and two lieutenants haV^ been arrested in conneet'on with the disturbance at Autiel '.races. They will be eourt-jnartialled. M^ Lombard, Solieifcor-Graeral of the Court of Ap^ peal, who was the pro««eeutior in*6he[ Deroulfd «ase, ,was dismissed- otvim;|to his luke-warmnoss wh'en M. Beaurepaire insulted M. Loubet. M. LaroitTj president of the assizes at the sanjft trial| will be arraigned' - before thtf Council on a similar ehatge In the Chamber of Deputies an interpellation %vas m'ovod aia'nst the Government. M. Dupuy, in d fending his poli(T« Uiade a scathing d^iiovne^ ment of the reactionary } eiturbers 1 at Autiel, whom he characterised as th« representatives oi elegance and .gooi taste. The , sitting of the Chamber was a stormy one. A Roj'alist Deptitf aneeringly described M. Loubet as fl honest Pananiist, \vhich"eausf<i %l him.''t| be pensuredL and expelled. > Tlje Qhax^ ber passed a vote of confidence in till "Go've/nuient by a large mui-or^' ;