PRICE OF FOOD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 75, 19 September 1911, Page 5

PRICE OF FOOD

FRENCH MUNICIPALITIES ENTER BUSINESS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Paris, September 17. Cherbourg and other municipalities are buying provisions and re-selling them, despite pecuniary loss, at the market prices of an ordinary year. In a little while they will open municipal stores, and a restaurant where meals will be supplied at cost price, without charging expenses of management. SERIOUS RIOTS-1N VIENNA. BARRICADES ERECTED. MILITARY FIRE TO KILL. Received 18, 9.20 p.m. Vienna, September 18. A Socialist demonstration was made on Sunday as a protest against dear food. Fifty thousand marched in the procession. Violent speeches were delivered, demanding the importation of foreign meat and the reduction of the cost of living.

The proceedings culminated in rioting. Innumerable windows were smashed, including those of the Law Courts. Tramears were also wrecked.

The police and soldiery were stoned and barricades were erected. Furniture from restaurants and schools was piled up in the streets and set fire to.

The dragoons charged and dispersed the crowd.

Towards evening.the rioting was renewed in the workmen's quarter, in the Ottakring districts. Troops fired, killing three, and wounding four severely. Eight were slightly wounded. A hundred and terenty were arrested.