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tAUBE WITHOUT ADMINISTRATION. WHOLESALE RESIGNATIONS OF MUNICIPALITIES. OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE REMAINS UNOPENED. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received April 18, 9 a.m.) PARIS, 17th April. There have been wholesale resignations of municipalities in the Aube district as a protest against the exclusion of the department in the delimited champagne asaa. Administration is at a standstill. Urgent official correspondence remains unopened, deaths and births remain unregistered, aud no civil marriages are celebrated. GENERAL CALM. MILITARY CORDON AROUND AY. BALL CARTRIDGES SERVED TO TROOPS. PARIS, 17th April. There is now a general calm in the wine-growing districts, with the exception of Fontain-sur-Ay, where the forest was set on fire* Ball cartridges have been served to twenty thousand troops in the Epernay district. > A cordon has been drawn around Ay, and the troops have been ordered to use the butt-end of their rifles against trespassers and rioters. The hospital, stables, and schools have been converted into barracks.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 90, 18 April 1911, Page 7
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156AT A STANDSTILL. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 90, 18 April 1911, Page 7
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