CONFLICTS WITH POLICE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10424, 15 September 1911, Page 5

CONFLICTS WITH POLICE

RIOTS IN FRANCE. A RE-ASSURING REPORT. (Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.) PARIS, September 14. The dear food rioters, armed wiith scythes, marched through the Meuse Valley. They were dispersed! by the Dragoons near Oharleville. Similar encounters with the trocips oourred in other townis,.particularlyin Oriel, near Chantilly. The troops were pelted wiith bricks and broken, botttles. Fifteen soldiers were badly injured. The Riot Act was read, and the cavalry charged with drawn swords and routed the crowd. Forty of the Criel rioters were injured!. Incendiari'eis burnt nine mtlAs- at Tourcoing, containing cereals. Housewives at Langwy thrashed a dealer for selling them bad eggs. A hostile crowd at St. Pierre 1' Englise met some Socialist agitators ait the station and severely beat them with sticks. / The Confederation of Labour has issiued a circular to consaript, urging them not to fire upon oiviliialns. The Minister of Agriculture reports thiai the yield of corn is 23£ per cent, above what it was in 1910, and there is a sufficient suppOy for the whole country. . Oi-.i.ng to the high price of fodder, farmers are likely to prefer to market their cattle. Hience the price of meat is diminishing.