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Show FRENCH HURRY TO BUY BREAD Bakery Shops Closed as Request Re-quest For Price Advance Ad-vance Is Denied. Paris. Dec, 2 (By The Associated Press. )Thc majority of the bakery shops In Paris and the suburbs closod at noon today In compliance With the decision of the master bakers to ceaa the production of bread as a protest against the official refusal to Increase the price two sous per kilo, to one franc 15 centimes. The government immediately ordered a Judicial inquiry with a view to the prosecution of the association ne of the reasons for fhe ma ter bakers' strike Is their d--.ire to force the government' to do awav with the law enact. -,i during the French revolution revo-lution in July 1701. under which the government has the right to fix the price of bread irrespective of the price of wheat flour. More than r.,000,0fin persons are affected af-fected by the elosfng of some gSOO shops. 2100 or which are in Paris and the remainder In the departments of the Seine ami Seine et Olse. The scramble for bread began early today when the newspapers printed Fridav night's decision of the bakers to close at noon. The majority of the bake shops were stripped by 11 o'clock. Then the public began a run on the fancy bread, cakes and pastries. lo-n these were gone, the bakers closed and went home. |