STRIKE RIOTS.
•FACTORY "WRECKED AND .THE PRISON, ATTACKED*
CAVALRY ENTANGLED : FIREARMS USED,.
By Electric Telegraph—Per Press 1 Association—Copyright. I ■ p.; PARIS, April 18. I Serious strike 'disturbances have I Occurred at Limoges, hub things arc I •±* ' now quiet. , I A porcelain factory was wrecked, I and the prison was attacked to se- I cure the release o£ the ringleaders, .who were arrested. • . Barricades, were erected, surmoun--y' .ted by red and black flags'. ■ -. ■ The cavalry, charging, stumbled J into wire entanglements.. Many .were thrown. , The troops, repeatedly charging - were met with a hail of stones. ■ The sounds of revolver shots exasprrate’di'ltho soldiers, spoue o£ whom fired without orders. Two rioters were killed* ' Thirty t-tW.'""? arrested. ' '"
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1435, 20 April 1905, Page 3
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114STRIKE RIOTS. Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1435, 20 April 1905, Page 3
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