CHAMPAGNE RIOTS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13353, 18 April 1911, Page 5

CHAMPAGNE RIOTS.

TOTAL LOSSES A7M,6M. Smm Stoppers Luving the Country. Pr«M Association.—Telegraph .-Copvri eht. PARIS, April 15. M. Ayala and some other wine shippers have decided to quit the country. M. Ayala’s losses amount to £200,000. Thn total losses are £750,000. Inquiry shows that some firms, besides the brands genuinely produced in the Marne district, sold wines manufactured from grapes from distant regions. They are heavy sufferers by the promiscuous destruction of property.

RINGLEADERS ARRESTED.

PARIS, April 15. Dubois and Le Goche, ringleaders in the riots, have been arrested? MINOR DEMONSTRATIONS. Artillery Protecting Rholmo Depots. PARIS, April 15. Papers seized at Venteuil indicate that the disorders were the outcome, of a plot of a supposed Parisian anarchist. Minor demonstrations have been made at various points. The strategic approaches to Rfaeims are closely guarded. Many bodies of rioters are converging on the city, and artillery are protecting the champagne depots. GENERAL CALM. Cordon Drawn Round Ay. PARIS. April 17. There is general calm in the winegrowing districts, except at Fontainsnray, where the forest was set on fire. Ball cartridges were served to 20,000 troops in the Epernay district, and a cordon was drawn around Ay. The troops were ordered to butt-end trespassers. Several rioters are in hospital. Stables and schools have been converted into barracks.

SOLDIERf CHARGE WITH SWORDS. PARIS, April 16. The vinedressers at Trenail barricaded the village and pillaged the residence of a wine merchant. Soldiers demolished the barricades, and being ordered to stop the devastation, charged with swords. VINES UPROOTED. PARIS, April 16. Fifty acres of vines belonging to Moot and Chandon were uprooted at Vernegay. Fifty arrests were made in the disturbed area. A STATE OF CHAOS. Received April 18, 9.20 a.m. PARIS, April 17. There have been wholesale resignations in municipalities in the Aube district. Administration is at a standstill, and urgent official correspondence remains unopened. Deaths and births are unregistered, and marriages uncelebrated.