FOOD RIOTS.
NEW PHASES.
MARKET PRICE TABLE
" WE'LL PAY NO RENT."
(Per Press Association.—Copyright).
PARIS, Sept. 11
The President of the Municipal! Couneil conferred with the Caterers' Union to arrange a table in the market price to be drawn up daily and widely enforced. The Rent Payers' Association, with five thousand members,' announces a strike against the threatened rise of rent in Paris. The first step will be a refusal to pay any rent in advance. The situation at Roubaix continues serious. Rioters looted the provision shops and erected barricades of stretched wire across the streets to trip the cavalry. They climbed lamp posts and extinguished the lights and removed th. plates covering the manholes of drains, to prevent the soldiers charging. There were many arrests and many soldiers were, injured by stone throwing.
PRICES IN RUSSIA
(Received Sept. 11, 9.55 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 11. The rise in the necessaries of life in some cases amount to 50 per cent, since the general strike of 1905.
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Waikato Times, Issue 12178, 13 September 1911, Page 5
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