Serious Rioting at Liege.
Sacking and Pillage. The Bulgarian Difficulty[Ueut'mb'B Telegkamb.] [Recced Maroh 20, at 12.30 p.m.! BRUSSELS, Mabck l!l. Serious rioting occurred at Lieg» yesterday, on tho occasion of a demonstration of Socialist agitators and unemployed labourers. A large number of windows were smashed, and shops were sacked and pillaged of their contents. A largo force of gondarmie endeavoured to quell the outbreak, and charged the mob several times, eventually cowing tho rioters and making over a hundred arrests. The amount of damage done cannof; yet be estimated, but it is known to be immr-nse. [Liefce, whinh Las been called th» "Birmingham of Belgium," is a citj ot 120,000 inhabitants. The staple industry is the manufacture of arms ; but there are also large locomotive and general iron, works, and extensive coal mines.) ST PKTBBSBUKO. Mir.rn 19. The Bulgarian difficulty lias not yet been settled, as tho Russian Government insist upon Prince Aloiander renouncing the claim put forward by him to a lifo tcnuro of th« Governorship of Western Eoumolia.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5572, 20 March 1886, Page 2
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