THE WINEMAKERS DISPUTE.
MILITARY LAW IN DISTRICTS
(By fc/tectric Telegraph — Copyright.)
PARIS,' April 14,
A total of five million bottles of wine were smashed and (five hundred casks of wine, destroyed.
Twenty-four persons 'have ibeen arrested including one of the ring leaders at Ay. Stolen 'bronzes, pictures, and clocks were seized in some of the prisoners' domiciles.
■The rioters at Venteuil burned their own barricades when the cuirassiers appeared. . The vine-dressers there met and approved of acts of violence committed, and claimed collective responsibility. , ;
The whole of Rheims.and Epernay districts are now regarded as under military law.
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Grey River Argus, 18 April 1911, Page 2
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