Sunday, May 26, 2013

Against French Army Bill.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 26, 1913:
20,000 in Paris Meeting Denounce Three-Year Service Measure.
    PARIS, May 25.— Twenty thousand Socialists, laborites, and revolutionaries of various groups attended a meeting at Pré St. Gervais, outside the fortifications, to-day in protest against the three years' army service.
    Eighty orators — among them M. Jaurés, the Socialist leader — harangued the assemblage from wagons. Large forces of police patrolled the neighborhood but were not called upon to intervene, as the meeting was very orderly.

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