PARIS.
June 17,
Telegram* are to hand from Marseilles that an extraordinary disturbance occurred there to-day. Several regiments of French troops of transport, just returned from Tunis, were marching through the town, and on passing the building occupied by the Italian club they were hissed from the windows by some of the members. There was a large number of people in the street at the time, and the action of the Italians excited them. They angrily demanded that the Italian escutchion should be removed from the club, and a great scene of disorder ensued. The Prefect arrived on the scene, aud endeavored to calm the mob, protesting agtinst any violence, but despite this protest the Deputy Mayor of the town, who was present, tock the lead of the crowd, and ascending a ladder tore down the escutchion with Mb own hands. Order was then restored. The news of the occurrence has caused much excitement.
Accounts to hand for the wheat-grow-ing districts give favorable reports of the prospects of the French crops,
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3113, 20 June 1881, Page 3
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