Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-06-04
GENERAL STRIKE EXPECTED
SOCIALISTS WILL ENDEAvoR TO
STOP WORK IN ALL PARTS
OF COUNTRY.
REVOLT AGAINST CLERICALS
THE CHURCH PARTY IS THE OBJ
JEcT or ATTACK BY THE
MALcoNTENTs.

Brussels, Belgium, June 1.-The
post-election riots in Belgium nave
taken on a revolutionary character.
Following last nights troubles at
Liege and other places, the socialist
central committee declared today
that it would proclaim a general
strike tomorrow.
At Antwerp one battalion OF scouts
and a section of artillery of the ciyi
guard joined the manifestants They
rebelled against the police authorities
and vented their feelings in demol-
ishing windows. The clerical press
demands the dispersal. of these
troops. In addition to the troubles
at Lege and Verviers where gen.
darmes fired upon a crowd, killing
or wounding more than fifty persons,
among whom were two children,
there was less serious rioting at
Bruges, Tournai, Ghent, Louvain, Ant
werp and in this city.
Several Jesuit colleges and Catno-
lie institutions were attacked and the
windows smashed. The gendarmes
charged the rioters with broadswords.
Several persons were killed ana
score wounded in the exchange OF vol
leys between mounted gendarmes
and rioters at Leige.
The fatal encounter occurred neal
the socialists headquarters known as
Pepulaire. Firing revolvers in the
air.. the protestants advanced through
the street sacking stores and cafes as
they went. After they had arrived at
the headquarters several shots were
fired from within upon the mounted
gendarmes.
The commandant, thinking the sol
diers we're about to be overwhelmed,
gave the order to fire at win and sew
eral persons fell in the hail Of bullets,
that followed, some being instantly
killed.
At Liege enormous damage was
done by the rioters last night. Today
the streets were piled high with bro&-
en- tables. chairs, beams. planks and
stones. the arms used by the mob in
attacks upon the police.
The tramways were wrecked. in
the PlaceNSt Lambert, the rioters ov-
erturned the street cars and used
them as barricades from behind
which they hurled missiles at the po-
lice. injuring several The favorite
cries of the manifestants are those
demanding the administrative separa-
tion of the Flemish and the Walloon
provinces Some of the newspapers
report growing sentiment among
the working classes in the Walloon
districts of the southeast in favor
VI duACAdl4OA W 1dnCCs T lily ttiOu-
sand additional reservists will be
called out, it was said today. The
agitation is spreading throughout the
country
The socialist leaders declare they
made a mistake in entering into a
coalition with the liberals at the re-
cent election. Henceforth they will
struggle separately. The new cham
Der of deputies will contain 1O1 cler-
icals, "A liberals. 80 socialists and
two democrats, or clerical majority
Of 16 over the opposition coalition.
There are several new seats this
year of which the socialists captured
four, though most Of them went to
the clericals. Paul Hymans, the lib
eral leader. issued an appeal to the
liberals not to resort to violence but
to continue the fight within consti-
tutional limits. It is believed that
any spread of the agitation viii re-
suit in trouble among the socialist
working classes. The miners at Sc