DEAR FOOD RIOTS.
PREMISES LOOTED AND BURNED. MILKMAN AND FARMERS ATTACKED. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT.] PARIS, Sept. 1. All the food shops at St. Quentin have been pillaged. A merchant’s house was looted and burned. Reinforcements of troops have been sent. BRUSSELS, Sept. 1. The dear> food riots are spreading through Belgium. Three thousand women at Hartmont made a- demonstration against milkmen and farmers, who escaped in automobiles. FURTHER RIOTING OCCURS. GOVERNMENT TAKES A HAND. (Received Sept. 3. 5.5 p.m.) PAULS, Sept. 2. More rioting lias recurred at Saint Quentin, and a number of butchers shops were wrecked. . . . Six policemen were injured, nut- tne rioters were dispersed by the mnitaij , twenty-one arrests being made. Residents ot Dounl seized the goods market and accept the prices offered. The Ministry is conferring with a view to the reduction of freights of produce. An official Note declares that the food riots, particularly at St, Quentin unci Valenciennes, are degenerating into an insurrection movement which is spreading, and which is more revolutionary than economic.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3313, 4 September 1911, Page 5
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169DEAR FOOD RIOTS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3313, 4 September 1911, Page 5
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