DEAR FOOD RIOTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 69, 12 September 1911, Page 5

DEAR FOOD RIOTS

REN'TPAYERS GO ON" STRIKE.

RIOTING AT ROUBAIX.

A SERIOUiS POSITION. By Cable Press Association—Copyright. Received 111, 9.55 p.m. Paris, September 11. The president of the Municipal Council conferred with the Caterers' Union and arranged for the placing of tables in the market and the price to be drawn up daily and rigidly enforced. The Rentpayers' Association, with five thousand members, announces a strike against the threatened rise of rent in Paris. The first step to be taken is the refusal to pay rent in advance. The situation at Roubaix continues serious. Rioters looted provision shops, erected barricades, and stretched wire across the streets to trip the cavalry. They climbed the lamp posts and extinguished the lights; and removed the plates covering the manholes and drains in order to prevent the soldiers charging them. There were many arrests and several soldiers injured by stone-throw-ing. RISE IX PRICE OF NECESSARIES. THE POSITION" IX RUSSIA. Received 11, f1.50 p. m . St. Peterburg, September 11. The rise in the price of necessaries of life has in some cases amounted to 50 per cent, since the general strike of 1905.

SEVERAL CASUALTIES.

Paris, September 10.

Fifteen soldiers and police and many rioter? were injured in the riotin«- at •Brest.

Housewives continue to attack retail ers and market gardeners in centres