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Show I APPLYIMG I THEJORCH H Women in Wine Dis- H tricts of France Defy H the Troops M Epernav. Department of Marne, H France, April 13 Despite the fact H thai the department of Marne Is a H vast armed camp with Infantrymen H and dragoons bivouacked throughout H the night at almost ecrv village In H tho champagne district, rioting broke H out anew today and the flames of an- H gor and vengeance continued to sweep B tho grape-growlDg region. H At Vlna the rioters hastily threw M up barriers with liarrels, cases and M debris of all sorts and succeeded In H holding back the advancing troops H while another gioup or manlfcstants, H armed with torches, entered the vast H champagne depot m The mob smashed all the bottles of Hl champagne they could find, wrecked Hl tho wine presses and then set fire to H the buildings. H Women were foremost in the work m of destruction, chanting snatches of M revolutionary airs and urging on tho Hj men. When the troops reached Vlnay. H the women lay down on tho roads and H defied the cavalry to rido over them. 1 Eventually the troops succeeded in i getting control of tho situation and 1 dispersed the manlfcstants. ( At dawn many places In the wine B. growing districts showed the horizon Hj1 darkened by the smoking ruins of Bi wine depots" burned during the night Ht At the same lime exploding detona- 'j tions summoned additional wine Hl' growers to the different rallying Hl points for the purpose of resuming Hh .tholr march of destruction. H The government officials claims M .that the sacking and burning of wine H property Is being done by the criminal H elements which are flocking into this H region from other districts, H The public prosecutor at daylight Hj; this morning proceeded to Ay, where Ht a conflagaration started by incendlar- Hk Jes threatened for a time last night H' to destror the entire village, and Hj made twenty arrests among the ring V leaders of tho manlfestants. M Rheims France, April 13. A cour- B ler arrived here today from Venteuil, H the wine depot in the department of H TIarne, saying an overwhelming force H of troops today occupies that town H -wlthouroloodshed. There was con- B fiiderable rioting yesterday at Yen- B l teuil, a detachment of gend'armes be- B Ing compelled to use their sabies be- B lore the mob, which had destroyed B several large wino presses, could be B dispersed. bbbbbbM nn |