In fairness to the men, it must be stated that their demands have a degree of reasonableness about them. It is the manner in which) they are enforcing their claims that The disturbances which have ye curred are more numerous than at first reported. The attacks made on the police in the Native City on the 19th instant arose out of a visit being paid by over a hundred men to, the house of a member of one of the guilds on the Boulevard Montigny extension. Many of the men were armed with tools which they are daily in the habit of using, and they broke open the gates and swarmed into the compound. A number of native policemen tried to disperse the crowd, but they themselves were attacked and had their uniforms torn. The police, seeing that their number was too small to be of any real use, summoned reinforcements, and the mob was eventually dispersed by a number of troopers. We also understand that one of the principal ringleaders, for whose arrest a warrant was issued, has escaped.
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