The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-12
FAMINE is NEAR.
Food Supply of Paris Is Cut OFF
by Strike.
Subway Employees About to
Join the Walk-Out.
ACTS OF VIOLENCE.
Wires Are Cut and Tracks Are
Torn Up.
Cars Broken Open and Live
Cattle Are Released.

Paris, Oct. 12.-Encouraged by the
effectiveness of the strike of employees
on the Northern railroad and Western
railroad and the extension of the
movement throughout the Eastern
road and the Paris, Lyons and Medi-
terranean lines the leaders of the
French workingmen generally threat
en- gigantic move to paralyze the ac-
tiVities of the whole country.
The electricians and the employees
of the omnibus, metropolitan and sub
way transportation lines of the city
considered today the advisability of
seizing this opportunity to launch a
strike for a redress of long standing
grievances.
The situation throughout the re-
public is regarded as grave. The rail-
road companies are making a desper-
ate struggle to maintain some sort of a
service with the aid of the military
engineers and men from the navy but
are meeting with little success.
To the government call to the colors
of 10000 strikers, the latter reply the
military code allows them a delay of
fifteen days before responding. The
reserVists who refuse to report for
duty are liable to Imprisonment for
tension of the strike to the east and
south has practically isolated Paris
which is threatened with famine.
The strike leaders declare not a
wheel will be turning on any railway in
the republic tomorrow evening.
Up to this afternoon the acts of vio-
lence have been confined to the cut
ting of telegraph wires and the tearing
up of tracks at several points.
Not a Train Moved.
The Paris end of the Western road
strike is complete. Not a single train
fsaT
early morning. The highways leading
to Paris are blocked with humanity.
Thousands of worklnen trudging to-
ward the city converged as they
reached the city's gates, where the
congestion was frightful The demand
for cabs and automobiles could not be
met and prices scared accordingly.
The government is seriously con-
cerned over the matter of FOOD supply
President Fallieres hurriedly returned
from his estate in the south today and
conferred with the ministers.
Enormous quantities of milk and fish
en- route from Normandy and Belgium
are stalled at points along the North
ern road. The blocked Northern line IS
the great artery for agricultural pro-
ducts. The president of the grain syn
,icate said the stock of flour on the
Paris market today did not exceed
75, 900 quintals, which is less than eight
days supply for Paris.
This does not include the flour in
bakers hands, which, however, is not
large.
The national railroad union COM
prises only 100, 900 of the total of 100000
men employed in the railway service
but a large majority of the nonunion
men are participating in the strike.
Air Pipes Cut.
The Southwest express had a mar
row escape from being wrecked on
it's arrival here today. The brakes
failed to work, and subsequent inves-
tigation showed that the air pipes
had been cut. The train dashed into
the Austerlitz station at a speed of
0 miles an. hour. 1t was stopped just
before reaching the Dorsant terminus.
At Bois Colombes, the strikers held up