POLICE ROUTED BY GIRLS.
■News reached Paris lately of a in a girls’ reformatory at IS^mout-de-Loise. Three hundred girls, ot ages varying from filteen to twenty, broke into open revolt. They marched from the refectory into the court-yard of the reformatory, danced a war dance outside the governor’s private house, and demanded that they be allowed a say in the management ot the prison. The governor refused to listen to them.
The girls then raided the kitchen, broke up the chairs, cut up the broomsticks, and smashed 1500 window panes in a quarter ot an hour. They next marched all over the building, smashed everything they could lay their hands ou. The governor telephoned for the gendarmee. A dozen gendarmes came, but ?t,be girls were too many for them. Th'ey used their wooden shoes as missiles, routed the gendarmes, and drove them out of the reformatory. Later a force of soldiers arrived, and restored order at the point of daayonet.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1009, 20 February 1912, Page 4
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160POLICE ROUTED BY GIRLS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1009, 20 February 1912, Page 4
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