Show A Scone 111 Conlital1tinOlle COXSTAXTIXOPLE April IThe government govern-ment is in arrears to its soldiers for several sev-eral months pay and today the wives of the soldiers attempted to secure attention atten-tion to their husbands demands by appearing ap-pearing in force at the office of the Minister Minis-ter of Finance Bands of women collected collect-ed to the number of two thousand or more at apoinfc near the building occupied occu-pied by the cabinet officers and at the appointed hour they marched in a body of Finance + o the office of the Minister jushing past the post guards They entered the office and confronting the Minister demanded the pay due their husbands Policemen were called in and tried to expel them but the women turned on the officers and forced them to retire The finance minister made a plausible excuse for delay in paying the but the women declared his answer men and made a rush for him unsatisfactory he however escaped by jumping out of the back window |