RIOT AMD PILLAGE.
j SERIOUS OUTBREAK IN FRANCE. FOOD PRICES, A REVOLUTION ART MOVEMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrlglit Paris, September 1. AH tho food shops at St. Quentin havo been pillaged'. A merchant's house was looted, and then burned down, Reinforcements of troops have been sent to tho (own. (Rec. September 3, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, September 2. More rioting has occurred at St. Quentin, where a number of butchers shop 9 were wrecked. Six policemon wero injured. Tho rioters wcro dispersed by tho military, and twenty-one arrests .wero made. Tho residents of Doual seized tho goods in tho market, tho sellers having refused) to accept tho prices offered. Tho Cabinet is conferring with a view to a reduction of freights on produce. An official note declares that tho food riots, particularly at St. Quentin aud Valenciennes, are degenerating into an insurrection movement, which is spreading. It is more revolutionary than economic.
TROUBLE SPREADING IN BELGIUM. Brussels, September 1. Dear food riots aro spreading in Belgium. Threo thousand women at Ilautmont held a demonstration against milkmen and farmers, who .cscaped in automobiles.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1223, 4 September 1911, Page 5
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180RIOT AMD PILLAGE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1223, 4 September 1911, Page 5
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