Omaha daily bee., 1912-06-05
RIUllNU LIN MANY
BELGIAN CITIES
Post-Election Movements Against
Government Assume Revolu-
tionary Aspect.
MANY KILLED AND WOUNDED
Mounted Gendarmes Fire Upon Mob
at Liege.
SOCIALISTS LEAD ATTACK
Stores and Cafes Are Looted as They
Advance.
TROUBLE IN OTHER CITIES
At Antwerp One Battalion of Scouts
,,c. S.,,lon ~ ArxfI1ery JOtn
Stores and Cafes Are Looted as They
Advance.
TROUBLE IN OTHER CITIES
Al Antwerp One Battalion of scouts
and section of Artillery Join
Mnniscstants--Eier Fight
mt Venteres.

BRESS els. Belgium, June 4.-The post
election riots in Belgium have taken on
revolutionary character. Following
last uishts troubles at Liege and other
places the socialist central committee de-
clared today that 1t would proclaim q
general strike tomorrow. W.
At Antwerp one battalion Of scouts and
section of artillery Of the civil guard
Joined the manifestants. They rebelled
against the police authority and vented
their feelings in demolishng windows.
The clerical press demands the dismissal
OF these troops
! In addition to. the troubles at L!ege
and Verviers. where gendarmes fired upon
crowd. killing or wounding over fifty
persons. among whom were two children
there, was less serious ioting at Bruges.
Journal, Ghent Louvain, Antwerp and in
this city.
a number of Jesuit colleges and
Catholic institutes were attacked by
mobs and the windows of the buildings
smashed The gendarmes charged the
rioters with broad swords. e
! A number Of persons We're killed and
u score wounded In the exchange OF
several voleys between mounted gem
darmes and rioters at 1iege,
The fatal encounter occurred in the
/ vicinity of the socialist headquarters
known as "Popuarie" Firing revolvers
II the air. the protestants advanced
slowly through the streets to Popularie,"
sacking stores and cafes as they went,
After they had arrived at the head
quarters several shots we're fired from
within tho place upon the mounted gen
dame In the street
The commandant thinking that the
soldiers were about to be overwhelmed, ,
gave the order TO fire at will and several
persons fell In the hall Of bullets follow
Ing, some being instantly killed.
| Barricades at LieEc
At Liege enormous damage was done
by the rioters last night, Today thu
streets In the city were piled high with
broken tables, chairs beams, plaiiks ard
stones, the arms used by the mob in
attacks upon the police.
The traniways were wrecked. In the
Place st. Lambert the rioters over
turned tie street cars and used them as
barricades from behind which they
hurled missiles at the police injurng
several
The favorite cries of the manifestants
are those demanding the administrative
separations of the Flemish and the Wal
loon provinces, Some of the newspapers
report growing sentiment among the
working classes in the Walioon districts
Of the southeast In favor of the annexa-
tion OF their provinces to France.
Fifty thousand addition reservists will
be called out, II was given out today.
The agitation is spreading throughout
the country.
several Killed at Verviers.
VERVIERS, June A mob today as
sailed gendarmes with missiles. The gem
darmes charged repeatedly and when
the rioters refused to disperse opened
fire. Thirty of the mob fell killed or
wounded. Seven gendarmes were in
jured Many arrests were made
Two Thousand Miners Strike.
MONS. Belgium, June 1.-TWO thousand
miners struck today in protest against
the maintenance Of the present govern.
ment.