New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-17
MORE VIOLENCE IN BELGIUM.
THE MAYOR OF BRUSSELS ASSAULTED BY
SOCIALISTS.
. TURBULENT MEETING OUTSIDE THE CITY
RIoTING AT NIGHT-roLICE ATTACKED
WITH GREEK FIRE AND STONES
SFPIOIrS SJTJ- ALTON MONS


SERIOUS SITUATION AT MONS.
Brussels, April 16-This has been a day Of
extreme watchfulness and anxiety on the part
of the authorities throughout Belgium. Reports
from all points indicate that the strike is spread
ing steadily, and that the temper Of the strikers
is growing worse.
In this city the morning passed without dis
turbances. Several suffrage meetings were held,
but they We're orderly and the speeches were not
violent. This afternoon, however. thousands Of
workingmcn held turbulent meeting on the road
70 the racetrack, outside the city limits The
advertised object of the meeting to denounce
the proclamation of Mayor Buls prohibiting pub
lie demonstrations in favor of universal suffrage
Volders the extreme Socialist leader. who was
arrested and released April l3, made in
cendiary speech, in which he applied the most
obnoxious epithets to NJ. Buls. The crowd be-
came uproarous shouted for revenge upon the
Mayor and enconrag ged Volders to still more in
temperate language. The police ordered the
crowd to disperse, but the workingmen replied
with jeers, whereupon the police drew their
swords and advanced toward the platform. Some
Of the crowd fired revolvers and few threw
stones, but the rest retreated without show of
fight toward the city. Nobody was injured
Mayor Bulls Walking home in the Avenue
Louise about an hour later when about 200
Socialists, returning from the meeting, came down
the street. They hooted and josted him, but
allowed him TO pass. After he had left the mob
ABOUT fifty PAGES behind him. three men ont
and one Of them struck him heavy blow with
q stick on the head. AS Bulls turned he received
another blow on the back Of the neck lie
fell, bleeding and unconscious, TO the pavement
A resident of the Avenue Louise, who had seen
the beginning of the encounter, and had run for
OF wit 81 he
was struck down. The police charged the Social
lists, and after fight of ten minutes dispersed
them Two of the crowd We're arrested, but il
has not been asoertained whether or not they are
Of the three who attacked NJ Bus. witness
of the mobbing informed the police that Just be-
fore their arrival workingman fired seven shots
from a revolver at the PROSTATE Mayor
NJ Bulls was still unconscious when taken 10
his homo. He recovered consciousness toward
evening, and probably will be able 10 resume his
official duties within few DAYS. Meantime
Alderman Andre will be acting Mayor. King Leo
pold has inquired twice by special courier after
NJ. Bulss health. II is reported that Volders will
be arrested for his part in the meeting which pre-
ceded the assault.
This evening turbulent crowds have fought the
Rue de la Baviere. near the MaisOn du Pcuplt, the
mob became threatening that mounted police
charged them with drawn swords The rioters
threw Jars OF Oreek Hrc ana repeated NO dcNS ol
stones among the police. Many of the mob
cut or trampled, and twelve of them We're arrested
Several policemen were bruised and burned
The city Is as if in a state of siege All places
of amusement are deserted. The police and the
rioters have the streets TO themselves
dispatch from Mons says that the rioters have
had possneic of many streets there since early in
the afternoon. Reinforcements Of soldiers have
been sent there from this city.
Paris, April 16.-M BouIee. French Ambassador
to Belgium, has returned TO Paris in response to
telephonic summons from the Government, who
wish to confer with him as to the revolt Of the
Belgian workinemen. The revolt has become so
threatening that it is believed Germany and
Austria will be justified, under the treaty OF
1884, in interfering TO support the Crown.