Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-02
ARMY RULES PARIS
Charging Troops Quelled May
 Day Riots.
DISORDER AT ROUEN, BREST, TOULON

Frequent Clashes Between People
 and SOldiers-Many Wounded by DraEoons - All Mobs Are ! Dispersed.
 PARIS, May 2.-Even with 5O,0OC
 troops and 10000 police lining the streets guarding all the public build. | ings Stock Exchange and banks and stringing out in formidable force to the suburbs, the mob spirit several l times gained control
 The police, stoned by strikers, drew pistols, but were not able to hold the throngs in check, and forces of cavalry
 had to charge them repeatedly. Fearing radical action by the labor leaders. the authorities surrounded 12,- GOO strikers while in meeting, and 800 arrests were made. A number of pris- oners were wounded during the riot ing. The rioting spread to other cities, and
 in Marseilles the fighting was severe,
 the victims being numerous. At Rouen
 the telegraph wires were cut. The
 black flag was raised at Brest, and red
 flags were carried in . parade at You
 lon.
 In Paris clashes were frequent. On
 ly the extreme oppressive measures
 that have been resorted to and the
 elaborate order plans of police and .soldiery prevented bloody May day.
 As it was, however. many heads were smashed. and some persons were hurt in a rush on the Place de la Re publique when a squadron of cavalry charged a great mob there.
 The most serious disturbance of the day up to late hour was fight be- tween the striking printers and police. The printers attempted to march in procession from the Bourse du Travail labor headquarters singing a revolu- tionary song
 They attacked the police who inter- vened. and the latter were compelled to draw their revolvers. The process sion was then broken up.
 Many anarchists were during the day expelled from Paris, including Ste- phane, Guertzicoff and one woman. M. Levy. secretary of the Confederation of Labor, and M. Fromentin, the wealthy anarchist, have been arrested.
 A special guard of police was sent to the American embassy, and later it was found advisable to surround the Bourse and Bank of France with troops.
 A squadron of cuirassiers. with an ambulance, occupied the part of the Place de rEtolle facing the Champs Elysee. Detachments of cavalry pa- trolled the thoroughfares in the vicin- ity of the ministries.
 The Boulevard Magenta was one Of the centers of disorder. and there magistrate read the riot act and the trumpeters of the mounted Republican guard sounded an order to disperse, but the manlfestants refused to move, whereupon the guards charged at a trot Many of the manifestants were roughly handled. and. a detachment of dragons re-enforcing the guards. the cavalrymen charged repeatedly. driv- inc the crowds before them. Numbers were wounded and trampled upon by the horses during the charges.
 Dragoons, Republican guards and cuirassiers charged disorderly masses, sweeping the Place de la and the broad Boulevard de Magenta. The cavalry charged with drawn swords. and many persons were on both sides. The mani- festants overturned omnibuses and threw up nasty barricades. Over a thousand arrests were made.
 vehicular traffic is now completely i suspended. Cabs. omnibuses and street | ,ars are not running, the result being | O give the usually busy boulevards singular aspect of desertlon.