AFTER THE STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 950, 18 October 1910, Page 5

AFTER THE STRIKE.

OUTRAGES ON FRENCH RAILWAYS. LINES STRONGLY GUARDED BY TROOPS. " By Tcleera-ptt—Proas Association—Copyright. Paris, October 16. A number of. outrages have been committed on the French railways, including pouring oil on the rails and tampering with signals, bnt tho services are practically normal. •:■•.. ■. <'! The entire railway from Paris to the Spanish frontier is.guarded by troops^ Fourteen strikers, have each" been. eeiitenced in Paris to ; a week's and fortnight's imprisonment.' for using abusive language to the police and military., I MORE JOURNALISTS ARRESTED. STRIKE COSTS STATE JH,000,006. - ; " (Eec. Oct. 18, .0.5 a.m:)". ,', ; Paris, October 17. A bomb exploded at midnight outside the residence of M. Massard, a municipal councillor. ..Three persons .were..injured, and considerable damage.'was caused to property.. . "The police subsequently raided the office of the newspaper "Liberfoire," and arrested M. Dulac, the editor, and M. Martin,. the manager. They discovered; - three pote_ exactly similar to the infernal machine used at the Rue Berri. ' ■ . : _ : The cutting, of;wires/ tampering with signals, s placing of logs upon the rails, and attacking the trains with revolvers, is.being practised- on.'an unprecedented scale. •.-...-' police state that great numbers of revolvers have been recently purchased. One shop sold as .many-as 400 a day. The Minister of War, General -Bran, states thai twelve out;.of. : every thirteen railway men' immediately obeyed, the mobilisation order. 7 ■ . The Minister of Finance, estimates that, the; strike will cost the; country xiloqo.ooo.;- ?. ' .The directors of the Northern Railway. Company have decided, to -establish a minimum wage ; of five francs a day for the Parisian railway men in January. ■ A PLOT. DISCOVERED. -,'•'•'. ~"". WILFUL DESTRUCTION OF PRO- .'"■- v -'■-PERTT.'.'.;. :; '- ■/;■', ~'-;'■;:';' •'',;.','; v Paris, October 16. '.. The Ministry, of the Interior discovered a plot for the wilful destruction; of. railway .lines/ibrjdges, ;and river locks. .Military. ~occupation:- of the . selected points -prevented an outbreak,-: ; _;The Government has .threatened heavy penalties when-the. organisers of the.plot are,discovered;\'.'. ■':s.■:[ .'-,'w; ''.;../ ;.;

;...A dynamite' bomb, was exploded on .the lino between -Bretuil and;. Ailly-snr-Noye, on 1 , •th-a Northern railway;'" A watchman stopped the- Calais;, express. half, a mile fronvthe sceno of tho .'outrage... ".» '■ ■'' ' .'■ It is believed that .the '.bomb' explosion: ■inthe.Rue Berri, off the Champs ElyseeSj ■ reported: in'' Friday's cable .-messages;, was (an; attempt on tha life of a. prominent magistrate for pronouncing 'severe son-, tencesion .the'strikers; - 'The.'magistrate; was, absent fromi home at the time: of the explosion. ..;!., .' : :'"'■?••■■