RIOTS IN FRANCE.
AUTHORITIES THREATEN TO
USE DYNAMITI:
SERIOUS CONFLICTS,
Uy Telegraph—Tress Association—Copyright Paris, Aug. 18. Trouble continues in Franco in eonnee* tion with the Religious Associations Bill. The Commissary Executive decrees in ono town threatened to dynamite a school which was barricaded. The defenders replied, “ Dynamite us too." The school was ultimately entered, making a breach in the wall.
As the Ponteroix gendarmes charged a crowd a torriblo melee ensued. Women were overthrown, and one had both arms broken. Priests wore knocked down and roughly handled. Thereupon tho mob unhorsed tho Commissary and beat and kicked him until two priests roscuod him.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 506, 20 August 1902, Page 2
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103RIOTS IN FRANCE. Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 506, 20 August 1902, Page 2
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