Thirty-six thousand miners are now on strike in the Pag de Calais.—Reuter.
10th October.
Seventy thousand out of one hundred and twenty thousand French miners have obeyed the orders for a general strike.—Reuter.
11th October.
The French strike is becoming more serious, Strong forces of troops have been requisitioned to maintain order, In. consequence of the strike, numerous shipments of English coal to France are being made.—Reuter. 12th October.
Movements of troops, converging on the strike districts, are observable in all directions in Northern France.
There is much talk in mining centres of a monster march of strikers on Paris.—Reuter,
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