Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-05-02
PARIS RULED
BY THE ARMY
Charging Troops QueIIed May
Day Riots Disorder at Other
Cities in the Country.

PARIS. May 2.-Even with oO.oOt
troops and 10000 police ming lhe
streets guarding all the public build
, ings stock Exchange and banks and
~stringing out in formidable torce 10
the suburbs, the mol spirit seVeral
times gained control.
uho notice. stoned by strikers, drew
nistols. but were not able to hold the
t~bronps in check. and forces of cavalry
had TO charge them repeatedly.
Fearing radical action by the labor
looders. the authorities surrounded H.
600 strikers while in meeting, and 500
arrests were made. A number of pris-
oners were wounded during the riot
ing.
The rioting spread to other cities, Il
in Marseilles the fighting was severe,
the victims being numerous. At Rouen
the telegraph wires We're cut. Inc
black flag was raised at Brest, and req
flags were carried in a parade at lou
Ion.
In Paris clashes were frequent. On
ly the extreme repressive measures
that have been resorted to and the
elaborate order plans of police ana
soldiery prevented a bloody May DAY.
AS it was, however, many heads
were smashed, and some persons were
hurt in a rush on the Place de la he
publique when a squadron OF cavalry
charged a great mob there.
The most serious disturbance of the
day up to a late hour was a fight be-
tween the striking printers and police.
The printers attempted to march in
procession from the Bourse du Travail
dabor headquarters singing a v
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. NJ.
Levy. secretary of the Confederation
Of Labor, and NJ. Fromentin, the
wealthy anarchist, have been arrested.
A special guard of police was sent to
the American embassy, and later 1t
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 rEtoile facing the Champs
Elysee. Detachments of cavalry pa
trolled the thoroughfares in the viein-
ity of the ministries.
The Boulevard Magenta was II or
the centers of disorder, and there a
magistrate read the riot act and the
trumpeters of the mounted Republican
guard sounded an order to dispense,
but the manifestants refused to move,
whereupon the guards charged at a
trot. Many of the manifestants were
roughly handled, and, a detachment of
dragons reinforcing the guards. the
cavalrymen charged repeatedly. driv-
ing the crowds before them. Numbers
were wounded and trampled upon by
the horses during the charges.
Dragons. Republican, guards and
c~uirassiers charged d~lsorderly masses,
continually sweeping the Place de la
Republique and the broad Boulevard
de Magenta. The cavalry charged with
drawn swords, and many persons were
wounded on both sides. The. mani
festants overturned omnibuses ana
threw up hasty barbados. over a
thousand arrests were made.
Vehicular traffic is now completely
suspended. Cabs. o%mnibuses and street
cars are not running. the result being
to give the usually busy boulevards a
singular aspect OF descrtion.