PARIS BLOCKADED
BY SEINE BARGES
POLICE AND NAVY SUMMONED.
(United. Press Electric Telegraph—Oopyrigh c.)
(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) * LONDON, August 22,
The “Evening News” Pari s correspondent, states that as a protest against the new canal river tolls, bargees nlockaded Paris by tying the.r boats to steel, cables, forming a barrier across the Seine, stopping traffic. They defied the police to do their worst. .
The authorities emphasised that the action deprivyed hundreds of factories of coal and raw materials.
The infuriated bargees refused to listen, and, with their wives, formed a line armed with boathooks, repulsing the police who appealed to the navy which sent a tug to break the cordon. The bargees were so threatening that the captain withdrew until reinforced by a second tug, fifty marines and two hundred police. The bargees riveted their boats and dropped anchors on all sides, but the, marines, using firehoses, tumbled tbem / into the Seine. The police simultaneously attacked from the rear forcing them to surrender. Fifty arrests were made.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1933, Page 5
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