THE GREAT STRIKE.
GUNSMITHS SOLD CUT.
By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Brussels, April 17.
The business losses in Belgium resulting from the strike amount to four millions sterling, The troops stopped six thousand strikers at Charleroi, who were marching on Brussels. Many telegraph wires have been cut. The gunsmiths in Brussels and other cities have sold their entire stocks of ammunition and weapons. A quarter of a million workers have struck. The quietness is due to the activity of the troops.
SOCIALISTS PREDICT CIVIL WAR.
By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Brussels, April IS.
Vandenvelde, tho chief socialist leader in Belgium, asserts that three hundred thousand have struck.
The Premier, in the Chamber of Deputies, said that the demand for a revision of the Constitution was premature. He might not accept universal suffrage at any price.
The Socialists predict that tho Government’s attitude will produce a civil war. The Chamber votes upon the question of revision to-day.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 394, 19 April 1902, Page 2
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