COST OF LIVING
FOOD AND RENT RIOTS IN FRANCE. (Received Last Night, 9.55, o'clock.) PARIS, September 11. The President of the Municipal Council, 'having conferred with the Caterers' Union, arranged for tables in the Market. A price for food is drawn up daily, and is rigidly enforced. A Rent-payers' Association, with five thousand members, has announced that it will strike against the threatened rise in rents in Paris. The first ?tep will be a refusal to pay rent in advance. The situation at Roubaix continues to be serious. Rioters looted provision shops, erected barricades, and stretched wires across the streets to trip the cavalry. They also* climbed lamp posts and extinguished the lights, and removed the plates covering manholes of drains, to prevent the soldiers • from charging. Many arrests wero made. Soldiers were injured by the stonethrowing. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 11. A rise in the price of necessaries of life, in -some cases equalling fifty per cent., has taken place since the general rise in 1905. ,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10421, 12 September 1911, Page 5
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166COST OF LIVING Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10421, 12 September 1911, Page 5
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