The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-29
PARIS NOW
 IS IN TURMOIL Government Completes Its Pr ,arations. THE PUBLIC SHOWS UNEAsINEss Bomb Exploded Under Railroad 7 Bridge at Argentuil. Jewellers Invade Popuious Center of the Capital in Attempt to Make
 Demonstration in the Rue
 de Ia Paix.
THE PUBLIC SHOWS UNEASINESS

Paris, April 2S.--The government has completed final preparations for deal ing with the May Day situation and Is confident that the day will pass without any serious disoredr, but at the same time the public. which is not in the least reassured by the elaborate military concentration, is showing great uneasiness. is+ .
 This has been accentuated by the explosion of bomb Friday night un- der the railroad bridge at Argenteuil, which links the capital with Havre, and by an attempt this evening by band of 100 Jewellers to penetrate the popu- lous, center of. the Place de LOpera for the. purpose of making demon stration before the great Jewelry es- tablishments in the Rue de la Paix. The activity of the police in making more searches and seizures although designed to secure the public safety, also has. had the effect of increasing public apprehension. many persons be- lieving that such extraordinary efforts indicate the seriousness of the situa- ton.
 Government, military and police of ficials give the most positive assur- ances that order will be maintained, and the calmer heads accept these statements; but the nervous element
 
 eventualities, some leaving town and taking their valuables with them and others laying in stores for an, .emer- sency. The scenes at the great sup ply stores are unprecedented, hundreds of persons invading them and clamor- ing for emergency supplies
 The sensational press increases the unrest by publishing alarming reports of anarchist designs.
 The Arxenteuii Outrage. }
 The explosion of the bomb under the Arxsnteuif bridge Is the first overt act or what the revolutionstss term. direct action" The bridge Is massive struc- .ture crossing the Seine six miles out is,de the St. Lazare station and, hum dreds of trains eros it daily. The mill tary endorsements that have been brought to Paris crossed the river on this bridge. The bomb used was cylfn- drical in shape The deafening expios- ion was heard for five miles. The rail roas as.torr up and. the signal on the bride was smashed, but the solidity of the structure resisted the force of the explosion.
 Although there is no clue to the per petrator of the explosion, the police have pronounced 1t to be an anarchist attempt and connect 1t with warnings that have been received of other sim far attempts, and accordingly rigor- ous orders were immediately issued for detachments of military engineers to guard all the bridges and tunnels of the western Railway ssytem contiguous to Paris.
 The appearance of the striking jew elers in the fashionable shopping dis tricts this evening caused considerable excitement. The strikers proceeded in a body from the Labor Exchange to the Rue de la Paix. the richest short street in the world, the windows of the stores being literally lined with diamonds They reacpAd the Place dc LOper1 where a force of Republican Guards and police barred their advance and a live iy scuffle ensued, in which the strikers were separated. turned back and dis persed. though a number of them were arrested.
 Police Search Houses. In the meantime the police had made searches of the domiciles of six per sons suspected of having anarchist connections and of the offices of the ipflammatory newspapers.
 The wholesale searches continue to arouse excited discussion. Some roy dist suspects disavow connection with plot, while others assert that the wealthy Count Durand de Beanregard is the tool of the visionary plotters
 The military governor of Paris this morning began the requisitioning of quarters In the neighborhood of Ecole Militaire and tomorrow the acquisitions will extend to the neighborhood of the labor exchange as the regular bar racks are inadequate.
 The actual state of the labor move ment is unchanged, the Confederation Labor has considered postponement of the demon stration until after the mill itary is withdrawn but the movement Is too far advanced to permit of any easy postponement and the indications are that the original plans will be carried out. Tho Confederation today issued 8 fnal appeal. bitterly arrafgn- ing the searches made by the authori- ties as an infamous invention designed to discredit labor. adding:
 May the working classes will not fall to present their claims. Nothing can stop us in ameliorating the lot Of labor. Despite the government de- spite all the forces of reaction. labor perserveres in it's exalted aim and nei- tber the exercise of force nor the mob iijzation of infantry can make the workers forget their interest"
 The appeal closed with a suggestion that the soldiers conscience should for hid them firing upon workmen.