THE BELGIAN STRIKE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9716, 19 April 1893, Page 2

THE BELGIAN STRIKE.

SERIOUS CONFLICTS AVITH THE POLICE. MANY KILLED AND AVOUNDED. [■"By Electric Telegraph.—Copybight.] (Special to Pbess Association.) Brussels, April 17. (Received April IS, at 7.35 p.m.) The Belgian strikers now number 50,000. Many have been killed in conflicts with the police and the military. AVork is at a standstill in Charleroi. The Premier has agreed to accept plural voting as the only means of appeasing tbe agitators. April 18. (Received April 19, at 1.25 a.m.) The strikers at Mous are maddened by the death of bheir comrades, and have sworn to avenge them. The Brussels compositors have struck, and bhe publication of the newspapsrs 13 suspended. (Feb Pbess Association.) Brussels, April 17. (Received April 18, at 7 p.m.) There is increased ferment throughout Belgium, and desperate lighting has taken place at Mons and Antwerp. A number of the Civic Guard were wounded, and several strikers killed and many wounded. April 18. (Received April .19, at 1 a.m.) Violent eonllicts have taken place between the civic guards and rioters afc Mons. The troops charged the mob, many of whom were wounded. The strikers retaliated with bricks, and the guards then fired, killing live and wounding many more. A large number were arrested, aud the crowd then lied, taking the dead witli them. Fomteen of the guards were wounded, some mortally. The Antwerp strikers are in sympathy with ths agitation respecting fche suffrage. They hid beliiud pile 3of wood in the docks and stoned the gendarmes, who fired upon tbem. The Belgian Government advocate manhood suffrage combined with plural votiug. lf the proposal is rejected the King musfc intervene. A Socialist rioter was arrested at Jolimont wifch 17 dynamite cartridges in his possession.