THE TROUBLE IN FRANCE.
EXTRAORDINARY SCENES. TROOPS CALLED OUT. Paris, June 19. There are indications that committees -"""'In the disaffected departments sought to establish a confederation, with M. Milbert as president, hoping thus to ob-1 tain an autonomous constitution. Trains full of troOp9 are being moved •bout in connection with the changing of garrisons. Many are being removed to a distance. Troops are being recruited from . among the southern population. There were extraordinary scenes at Narbonne-
Late last night the tocsin was so.ui dea at the Town Sail. - People poured into the streets »ns began to erect barricades. M. Ferroul ex-mayor, whose unreal had been ordered, stopped them, saying: "I want no barricades. I will surrender myself to justice. I want, nc ' bloodshed." He th vn summoned them . ti destroy the barricades, himself ,set- . ting an example. The people obeyed. and the barricades were removed. Troops ocenpy Naifoonne.. M. Ferroul was arrested without turbanceDetectives, with n military escort, went to Argellicas to arrest 11 Albert and five others. They arrested three, bat failed to find M. Albert. RIOTING INCIDENTS. TROOPS .J2JSPEL DEMONSTRATORS. TRANQTJILITY RESTORED. Received 20th, 9.25 p.m. Paris, June 20. Serious rioting occurred at Narbonne at night A crowd, which consisted of a party of peasants, emptied a can of paraffin over the door of a wine manufacturer's establishment, and attempted to ignite it, but were reputed by soldiers stationed in the .courtyard. -The demonstrators then tried to enter through the gardens, the troops charging repeatedly for an hour and a half before they succeeded in dispersing the rioters.. Some gendarmes were wounded. Troops at Mont Pelier scattered a crowd which collected outside the prison cheering M. FerrouL M. Clemenceau's latest despatches show that tranquility In the south has been restored.
NARBONNE DEMONSTRATIONS. Received 20th, 8.33 pjn- ' June 20. The crowd -at Narbonne, surrounding It'Ferroul's carriage, hissed the troops escorting him to the prison. Thereupon the infantry fixed bayonets and the cavalry dispersed the demonstrators. The latter threw stones, injuring a CobneL ■ 6
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 21 June 1907, Page 3
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334THE TROUBLE IN FRANCE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 21 June 1907, Page 3
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