SCENES IN FRANCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10211, 13 April 1911, Page 5

SCENES IN FRANCE.

THE CHAMPAGNE TROUBLE.

f DEMONSTRATIONS BY GROWi ER£. (Received Last Night, 11.30 o'clock) PARIS, April 12. The action of the Government in referring to the Council of State the whole quest-ion of delimitation of the champagne area has been much discussed. The climax was readied when the ■Senate, by 213 votes to 62, expressed its confidence that the Government would submit to Parliament, at its earliest opportunity, a Bill securing the repression of fraudulent practises without maintaining a territorial delimitation calculated to provoke divisions among i'renchmen. After debate, >M. • Zobers, of the Aube Defence Commitlee, informed the mandatories that, failing the unconditional inclusion of Aube in the delimitated area, it- was preferable that all delimitation should he abolished, and any anti-adulteration laws strengthened. Indescribable scenes followed in the Valley of Marne. Thousands of vine-growers spontaneously assembled and marched- to D,idy, where theV attacked one firm's cellars, smashed 230,000 bottles of wine, barricaded three streets with v.ats, benches, presses, and other material, and burned a tar barrel. » Gendarmes and dragoons restored.; order. Many demonstrations and counterdemonstrations occurred elsewhere.