The herald., 1893-07-08
R|OTING RENEWED IN PARIS.
Exciting Scenes of a Few Days
Ago Repeated.
WOrkiHgmen Arrayed Against Police
and Government.
An Angry Mob Attempts to Drive the
Troops from the strasts-The As
sailants Repulsed After
Stubborn Conflict.
BY the Associated press.

oy tue AssoCAdteu IIo,s.
PARIS, July THE city was quiet to.
day, but it was brooding quietness
that argued i'll for order when darkn ess
should set in. The situation promised
to become critical, but the government
was fully alive to the condition and pre-
pared for almost any contingency.
Workingmen have now become in.
censed against the police and propose to
show their indignation against them
and their disapproval of the govern
ment by the Inauguration of general
strike. An appeal signed by delegates
of l67 trades syndicstss was issued to-
day in Paris and the provinces request
ing workingmen to quit work.
The tension between the Paris
municipal council, some of whose
members are avowedly Socialists,
and the government shows no
signs of lessening. The council held
q meeting today at which several mem
oers made speeches, in which they vio-
lently denounced the government for
supporting the police in what was
termed high-handed reckless disregard
OF the law. This action adds strength
to the report that the government in
tends to dissolve that body.
Fifty-five of the rioters have been
held for prosecution. All other persons
arrested have been released.
Though the district in the vicinity OF the
Place de la Republique remained quiet
throughout the day, several companies
OF infantry and cavalry took possession
OF the place to guard against recur-
renee of the disorderly scenes that have
taken place there. This evening opened
with the police apprehensive of riots in
the Latin quarter. Street speakers were
compelled to move on whenever they
tried to call crowd. Most of the agi-
tators therefore retired to the Seine,
where they denounced the police and
exhorted their hearers to clean the
streets of the military round the Place
de la Republique.
Signs of trouble were especially
numerous on the Boulevard Voltaire
and the Boulevard de Temple. Rioters
armed with clubs and revolvers
marched cheering and singing toward.
the Place de II Republique. They were
met by body OF dragons and lancers.
They were ordered back, but pressed
ahead. The military charged, but
although many rioters were knocked
down and trampled, the mob did not
yield. The soldiers were received with
showers of stones and scattering shots.
Several were struck with clubs. The
charge wss repeated and the mob began
retreating slowly. The men backed off,
step by step, those in front welding
clubs right and left, and those behind
splitting up booths and kiosks into
weapons, with which to fight later in
front.
After the charges OF the military had
forced the mob back to the Boulevard
Richard Lenoir, where the fighting was
suspended, the rioters set fire to the
booths which they did not split into
clubs, and for five blocks the Boulevard
Voltaire is strewn with broken timbers,
charred boards and torn and bloody
clothing. Most of the windows were
smashed during the conflict Thirty or
forty rioters were seriously wounded.
Two lancers are said to have been
wounded by revolver shots. In the
Boulevard de Temple similar encounters
took place.
Throughout the evening the police
treated brutally press reporters who
were sent out to describe the riots. Sew
eral were assaulted and beaten by the
police.
The fighting between the riotors and
military at the Place de la Republique
and in the nearby streets continued
until / O'Clock this morning. The feel
ing of the workingmen against the stu
dents who refuse to participate in the
riots ia very bitter. The municipal coun-
Gil held stormy meeting. M. Humbert,
president made bitter speech against
the governments action in closing the
labor exchange. The cabinet, he said,
was trying to strengthen itself by PAN
dering to the reactionaries. The people
were not ready to see liberty
threttled, and unless the govern
ment reconsider it's rash action in
shutting up the labor exchange, the
protest of the people o. Paris
would be strengthened by the
laboring millions throughout the repub-
lie. Other members of the council
spoke still more strongly against
the government. The project of police
replied briefly that as soon as the trades
unions showed disposition to obey the
laws the government would meet them
more than half way and allow the ex-
change to be re-opened.
Much uneasiness has been caused by
the announcement that on Tuesday the
Anarchists will celebrate the anniveY-
sary of RavachoPs execution. Among
the signers of the municipal councils
protest against the closing of the labor
exchange, is M. Floquet, ex-president of
the chamber.