FOOD RIOTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 62, 4 September 1911, Page 5

FOOD RIOTS

| SHOPS PILLAGED. • By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. I Paris, September 1. j All the food shops at St. Quentin | have been pillaged. A merchant's house was looted and burned. Reinforcements of troops have been sent. DISAFFECTION SPREADING. REYOLUTIOXAItY MOVEMEXT. Received 3, 5.5 p.m. Paris, September 1. There is more rioting ill St. Quentin. A number of butchers' shops were wrecked. Six policemen were injured and the rioters were dispersed by the military. Twenty-one arrests were made. Residents of Doual seized the goods market. Miners are conferring with a view to the reduction of freights on produce. An official note declares that the food riots, particularly at St. O llo "ti n and Valenciennes, are degenerating into an insurrection movement which is spreading, and which is more revolutionary than economic. SPREADING IN BELGIUM. Brussels, September 1. Dear food riots are spreading through Belgium. Three thousand women at Hautmont made a demonstration against milkmen and farmers, who escaped in automobiles. A FLAX-SPINNERS' STRHvE. Received 3, 5.5. p.m. Brussells, September 3. Twenty-five hundred flax-spinners struck owing to the mill owners proposing to work, short time.