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Show RIOTING AT EPERNAY. EPERXAY, Department of Marnc. France, April 11. On hearing the de-I de-I clsion of the sennte, the leaders sum- moned the wine growers to Epernay and tho call was quickly answered 1 A big column marched through tho I valley and arrived at Dlzy before the -authorities were aware that the workers work-ers had started. They wrecked cellars cel-lars and smashed 230,000 bottles of champagne, throwing up barricades of . casks and hoisting the red flag. I The column then swooped down on Damerick, where three establishments 1 were sacked, gallons of wino being poured into the streets The next stopping place was Ay, where the rioters riot-ers were beginning the work of destruction, de-struction, when a squadron of dragoons, dra-goons, which had been sont in pursuit, i caught up with them, driving them out , of town. Several of ihe rioters were , injured but the others took up the J march to Epernay. At Epernay the ropulace was seething seeth-ing and It la feared the night will not pass without much further destruction . of property. I nn |