. Review of reviews and world's work. , energetic action on May Day, however,probably saved Paris from widespread prefect of police, M. Louis Lepine, dis-played great vigor, and his efforts were sup-ported by Minister of the Interior posted his 70,000 troops at the danger-points throughout the city, and lined the avenueswhere disorder was likely to occur with themunicipal gendarmerie. A vast crowd was heldin check, and the day generally passed withoutdisturbance. Over a thousand arrests were made,but only about one hundred and fifty personswere remanded for
. Review of reviews and world's work. , energetic action on May Day, however,probably saved Paris from widespread prefect of police, M. Louis Lepine, dis-played great vigor, and his efforts were sup-ported by Minister of the Interior posted his 70,000 troops at the danger-points throughout the city, and lined the avenueswhere disorder was likely to occur with themunicipal gendarmerie. A vast crowd was heldin check, and the day generally passed withoutdisturbance. Over a thousand arrests were made,but only about one hundred and fifty personswere remanded for trial. The casualties reportedwere some seventy persons—mostly militaryand police—wounded by stones and strikes throughout the provinces, however,involving altogether more than two hundredthousand workers, threatened, at times, to be-come very serious. Minister Clemenceau (whosecharacter and career are sketched by Mr. W. ^tead on another page, this month) displayed 656 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REk^IEIV OF RE^ M. GRIFFTTELHES, SECRETAKY OFTHE FRENCH CONFEDERATION OFLABOR. his customary vigor and originality in liandlingthe situation by going alone and unguarded intothe Lens district, where tlu;ie had been thegreatest disorder, to secure first-hand informa-tion as to conditions. He disappointed oper-ators and minersalike by refusing toside with either andbeing fair to attitude to-ward violence bylabor organiza-tions was indicatedin his remarkablefrank interviewwith M. Griffu-elhes, general sec-re t a r y of theFrench Confedera-tion of Labor (whohad been arrestedon siispicion ofconspiring againstthe public peace),in the course of which he said that, while hisown personal views with regard to the laborsituation might be different from those of hiscolleagues, he would spare no effort to crushany organization that made a public disturb-ance. You may talk and preach and say whatyou like, but, my good friend, you must bear inmind that just at this mom
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