The record-union., 1899-08-21

police, who have orders for their arrest.
PARIS, Aug. 21. a. NIP to the
present hour 56 persons have been re-
ported injured, including several po-
lcemen. Nearly all We're hurt by being
crushed or trodden under foot
An attempt was made to fire the
choir of St. Joseph with petroleum and
the firemen were called on to quench
the flames.
Several parishioners were severely
mauled in their efforts to save the
church from sacrilege. The church is
situated in the poorest quarter of the
city
Besides St. Joseph's Church, two
cafes We're wrecked. At a late hour
10000 people were in the Boulevard de
Magenta, which runs past the end OF
the Rue de Chambrot. They are kept
constantly moving by the Republican
Guards, who made a rer1 ar @9tc dis
play of force
Large bodies of police were constant
ly operating in and around the Rue de
Chambrot and large force is in readi-
ness at the nearest barracks.
In the collisions between the anarch-
lists and Guerinites the scuff1ing was Sc
rious and three companies of the Re-
publican Guards charged the contest
ants, several persons being injured.
Fifty or sixty policemen were seen
striking wildly at every person within
reach on the Boulevard de Magenta A
lad was knocked down and while trying
TO rise policeman literally jumped
upon him.
According to some, paving stones
We're torn up and used as missiles. In
the Avenue de Ia Tailenbourg there was
fierce conflict. The police had to
draw their swords against the anarch-
lists, who assailed them with stones.
Four policemen were wounded, two Sc
riously, and had to be taken to the
hospital. A lamentable feature of the
affair is that it will be regarded as a
pro-Dreyfus demonstration and react
greatly to the detrinent of the chance
of acquittal
It is much to be feared that yester-
days scenes We're due to the weakness
the Government has displayed over the
Guerin affair The Governments de-
sire to avoid bloodshed has been mis-
interpreted with the worst results.
1t appears that the anarchists dem
onstration was decided upon at meet
ing held Saturday night. The journal
du Peuple,'' edited by Sebastian Faure,
published a manifesto denouncing the
military party. the anti-Semites, the
monarchists and the priests, and urged
it's supporters to meet force with force.
Should Dreyfus be convicted said
the manifesto 'it will be the triumph
of bandits. Should he be acquitted the
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lion"
The paper called on all anarchists to
demonstrate against the priests and the
Jesuits. Copies of the manifesto were
scattered broadcast and the result was
the anarchists fiocked into the streets,
singing the "Carmagnole" and crying
''Abas Rochefort'' "Abas Drumont'
and 'Abas Guerin."
The Guerin affair is becoming a COM
plete farce.
A leg of mutton and other provisions
having been thrown from house oppo-
site and having fallen into the street,
they were seized by the police. NJ
Guerin, enraged at the loss of his Sun
day dinner, flung the window open and
shook his fist. exclaiming: IF a single
! one of my men should complain of hun
ger I will blow Lepine's (Prefect of Po-
! lice) head off the first time he passes
through the streets.
You policemen who have the mis-
fortune to serve band of scoundrels
ought to let things 60 You can't al
low us to die of hunger. All, bon dieu,
but we shall resist. Send us up what
ever friends have thrown US or fire on
US at once, savages."
PARIS, Aug. 21.-(4 a. m.)-The Pre-
lecture of Police gives the following
statistics Of yesterdays riots: Three
hundred and eighty persons injured.
| Three hundred and sixty We're taken to
the hospitals. Fifty-nine police agents
were wounded. besides Commissaries
Coulter and Dolsmine One hundred
and fifty persons were arrested, of
whom eighty are detained in custody.