France.

Manawatu Herald, 8 June 1899, Page 2

France.

THE BEGINNING OF DISORDER. Royalists, Pa riots and antiSemites wearing the Boulangis carnation organised demonstrations

at the races at Auteuil (formerly a village, now a place within the city fortification*). M. Joseph Lisies, an anti Semite deputy for Gers, a department in the south-west of France ; and M Firmin, a Faure elected deputy fir Algeria, a French possession in N.rth Africa, were the ringleaders in the demon -tration, Tha h rrival of the French Pre-»i-l^nt, M. L.ubet, wa9 a signal for much hooting and cries of •' Panama ! " " Down with Loubtt " and Vive 1' Armee " Many arrests have been affected including a man who was rushing a carriage containing Nationalists. . Daring the races M. D-jroulede, the reactionaire, and the army were cheered, amidst continuous whistling and hooting. A free fight occurred, and thirty arrests were made. Several policemen were severely injured while defending the Presidential stand. Generals Roget and Brugere were seized and disarmed. Count Gbristini, a member of tha French Steeplechase Sooiety, was arrested for striking at President Loubet with a walking stick. The assailant had actually struck the President's hat. M. Loube*-, however, calmly conversed with M. Dupuy, the Premier A vast majority of the crowd at a distance cheered M. Loubet during ihe disturbance. Further fights ensued as the result of this cheering and further arrests were made. The R .publican Guard surrounded the President's stand, and oleared the ground at the rear. Subsequently M. Dupuy and Generals Zurlinden and Baillond accompanied^ M. Loubet to th-a rail way station amid yells and cheers. The Oabinet subsequently held a two hours' sitting, and resolved to take energetic measures to suppress the rioting. Over 150 arrests were affected, including many Royalists. The Government being forewarned has sent Major Marehant quietly away. In connection with the rioting that took place on the racecourse at Auteuil, near Paris, yesterday, in wbich tbe President M. Loubet, was attacked, one colonel and two lieutenants of the army have been arrested. These officers will b 9 tried by court-martial. In the Chamber of Deputies an interpellation was moved against the Government. M. Dapuy the Piemier, in defending the policy of the Government, mide a scathing denouncement of the reac-.ionary p^rtnrbers a* Auteuil, whom he characterised in severe irony as the representatives of plr-gancy and good taste. The sitting of the Ohamber was a stormy one. \ Royalist D puty sneeringly described M. L oubst, the President, a* iin honest Pwnamist (a reference to the Panama scandals), which remark caused bim to be censured and expelled. The Cbambar carried a vote of confidence in Government by a lai'ge majority. Th-. club., where the young Royalnta hatch their sedition have beon olosrd. M. Lombard, the Solicitor-Genera' of the Court of Appeal, who wa?prosecuted in the case against the reactionaries. D.roulede and Haber* for creating disturbances at th^ funeral of the late President Faure, has been dismissed^ owing to th° luke-warm attitude he assumed in the prosscution of the accused, who were acquitted. M. Ln-dif, the President of the Court of Assizos, who was presiding when M. de Baaurepaire insulted M Loubet in his evidencs at the sam^ trial, will be arranged before the Council on a similar charge.