The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-02

muddled as 1t has been for the past few days. the labor element awaiting orders which do not come.
 The railroaders announced that their strike, which is to be continued after to- day, to enforce standardization, Is already 60 per cent effective. Official reports from government sources say that the op- erations today were not far from normal on certain llnes the most important trains moving in and out of Paris. A lm- ited suburban service was maintained.
 Twenty-seven police were wounded three of them seriously, and many of them were bruised. The woman wounded was hit by spent bullet while at a win dow watching the rioting in the Palace de la Republique. More than 100 persons were arrested and the number is grow tng, but many were quickly released.
 The coolness and bravery of high school and technical students who volunteered to run motor omnibuses occasioned much applause, but their efforts in breaking up the transportation strike were the primary cause of most of the disorders In the PIacede La Republique they, at times, drove through hostile crowds, who showered them with stones and broke the windows of the houses, but they continued the service which was organized at the instance of the government.
 CLASH WITH CROWDS
 Two members of the Chamber of Depu- ties, M. Valiant t-Couturier. whose prose- cution is sought by the government for alleged indictment of the military 10 disobedience and Alexandre Blanc, wear ing deputy's tri-color sash and fam ing red tie. were wounded in a collision with the police in the Place De La Re publique. They addressed crowd which was shouting Glass of 191S,' in connec- ton with the agitation for the demobiliza- tion of that class. The deputies Narangues were so phrased in appealing for quiet that the crowd became greatly excited. and clash with the republican guards and police followed. M. Blanc received a gash on the head, said to have been from a sabre NJ. Valiant Couturier came off with tap of a night stick on the head and a damaged nose
 The demon strations in Paris today d. vided the city into two distinct parts That to the west of Boulevard de Stras- bourg and Boulevard de Sebastapol tax ing on an almost forlorn and deserted ap- pearance. while the populous districts to the east of these bouevards and the in ter boulevards were damned with seeth- ing population.
 The porte St Martin and Place de Ia Republique were soon regarded by tne police as points at which trouble might be looked for, and even tonight are cor doned off.
 A majority of the crowds seemed mainly occupied in amusing themselves by annoying the police, without risklng getting into trouble.
 The labor federations' reports from the provinces estimated that the strike was about 50 per cent effective. Other sources seemed to confirm this statement of partial response to labor's May Day or ders = In Alsace Lorraine the railroad employees worked to regain time lost in the recent strike.
 At Neuilly there were numerous ar rests of demonstrators who were barred from the city. and who stopped auto mobiles and broke windows. In Paris a gun store was pillaged and number or revolvers and rifles stolen.
 Madame Le Gros, who was wounded oy a bullet as she watched the manifes- tants from window in the Place De Ia Eepublique, died this evening. This brings the death toll up to three.
 When the night services on the north ern and eastern railways began at 10 O clock this evening, it was found that all the employees were at their posts. indi- eating that the railroad strike will have failed by Sunday or Monday.