FIGHTING IN FRANCE.
THE DEAR FOOD RIOTS. TROUBLE ASSUMES A SERIOUS ASPECT. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.] (Received Sept. 11, 9.55 p.m.) PARIS, Sept. 11. Tho president of the Municipal Council lias conferred with the Carters’ Union, and arranged a table in market prices to be drawn up daily and rigidly enforced.
The Rent-Payers’ Association, with live thousand members, announces a strike against the threatened rise in rent at Paris.
The first step would be a refusal to pay rent in advance. The situation at Roubaix continues to be serious.
The r;i ters looted provision shops and erected bancades and stretched" wire across the streets, in order to trip the cavalry. They climbed the lamp posts and extinguished the lights, and removed the plates covering the man-holes of the drains, to prevent the soldiers from charging them.
Many arrests were effected, and several soldiers were injured by stonethrowing. HIGH PRICES IN RUSSIA. ST PETERSBURG, Sept. 11. There lias been a rise in the price of the necessaries of life, in some cases amounting to fifty per centum, since the general strike of 1905.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3320, 12 September 1911, Page 5
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181FIGHTING IN FRANCE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3320, 12 September 1911, Page 5
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