WILD SCENES.
FRACAS AT LABOR CONGRESS. ■ BOLSHEVIKS ATTACK MODERATES. By TeleerraDh.--Tress Assn—Copyright. Received July 27, 5.5 p.m. London, July 26. The scenes nt the Labor Congress held at Lille, which was marred by a serious *racai. were vnparnlled. The congress was held in an immense winter garden under a glass roof. The affray began by certain Bolshevik extremists trying to eject a moderate named Domoulin from the tribune. The mod< rates rushed to protect their comrade, and the whole congress was thereupon tmn ferred into a seething mass of strug/ung and perspiring humanity, resembling an enormous football scrimmag:-. In front of the tribune Monmousseau a giant bull,ik»ocked the secretary of th? Parisian Federation and used his fi-ts and feet against the mwlerates nearby . Monmousseau’w, supporters then seized irim '■hairs and hurled them into the ranks of die moderate de fenders. Half a dozen revolver shots were fired, and four fighting delegates fell wounded. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 July 1921, Page 5
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