THE FRENCH RIOTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10214, 17 April 1911, Page 5

THE FRENCH RIOTS

TROOPS GALLED OUT. A WINE-GROwERS' MANIFESTO. (Received April 15, 9 a.m.) PARIS, April 14. Twenty thousand troops are occupying Marne. They were mobilised forty-eight hours too late. The .win© growers' losses are estimated at a quarter of a million sterling. The authorities have been enjoined to restore order at all costs. Senators and Deputies of the Marne Department conferred with the Winegrowers' Federation. The latter then issued a manifesto attributing the worst incidents of the rioting to Anarchists; also to the incitations of a cyclist, who falsefy represented himself to be an emissary of the Federation. The committee's manifesto appeals to the vine-dressers to await the coming solution of the trouble. It is understood that vines have been considerably affected by blight, this foreshadowing a poor vintage this year. The smaller winegrowers in the Department of Marne are suffering from a series of bad harvests. Their estates are heavily mortgaged. They sell their products to big firms enjoying a reputation for selling genuine Marne champagne. Hence they are of one mind with the latter and the cebarmen in supporting area delimitation, and violently protesting against the abrogation or revision of the present conditions. LONDON, April 15. The Paris correspondent of The Times states that the French Senate, under pressure from Auibe, has declared against all delimitation, and that the Chamber of Deputies, under impulsion from the Marne rioters, supports the Government, which is inclined to yield to the greatest and most recent pressure. The seriousness of the situation lies in the fact that large sections of the masses are convinced that the proper way to influence public opinion, Parliament, and the Government, is to indulge in violence. The partisans of Sabotage scarcely fear the arm of the law or the military; they are confident that M. Jaures (the Socialist leader) and his friends will keep the action of both within bounds. "The question is," adds the correspondent, "how long Frenchmen will go about their daily business on these terms. They are in horror that the increasing lawlessness may possibly some day exceed the present widespread horror of reaction."

(Received April 15, 1 p.m.) PARIS, April 14. Military aeroplanes reconnoitred over the disturbed districts. Further arrests have been made on charges of damage and pillage. Enquiry shows that some firms, besides the brands genuinely produced in the Marne district, sold wines manufactured from grapes from distant regions. They are heavy sufferers by the promiscuous destruction of property. Several police, who have been engaged in the surveillance of anarchists, have been sent to Rheims to arrest Parisian agitators who are known to be there.

RINGLEADERS ARRESTED. OWNERS QUITTING THE COUNTRY. RHEIMS CLOSELY GUARDED. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) PARIS, April .15. Dubois and Lagoche, two of. the ringleaders in the riois, have been arrested. \ M. Ayala, and some other wineshippers, have decided to quit the country. M. Ayala's losses amount to £200,000. The total losses are estimated at £750,000. Papers seized at Yentenil indicate that the disorders were the outcome of a plot supposed to have originated with Parisian Anarchists. Minor demonstrations have been J made at various points. The strategic approaches to Rheims are now closely guarded. Many bodies of rioters are converging in the city. The artillery are protecting the ■champagne depots.