BELGIAN RIOTS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1932, Page 6

BELGIAN RIOTS

COMMUNISTS AGAIN ACTIVE,

SEQUEL TO COAL STRIKE

(United Press, Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

BRUSSELS, July QO.

Several were killed and many were injured in a Communistic riot at Charleroi, following on a coalminers’ strike. The : rioters set fire to the residence of the owners of one of the biggest factories in Charleroi. Tliew - they entered a crowded' cinema, brandishing firearms and creating a panic. Casualties occurred when the police endeavoured to eject them from the district. Terror stricken, the province of Hainaut is now almost in a state of siege. ,l! The tramcars were stopped by.j,-,at-tacks on the drivers, and also by, women lying on the - lines. Police equipped with machine-guns have been sent to intercept the. strikers, who are marching on to Brussels and are endeavouring to foment -Igetiy era! disturbances-. . : '

GERMAN COMMUNISTS^.-

DYNAMITE CAMPAIGN ALLEGEDc

• LEIPSIG, July 10.)

The Federal Court sentenced thivb teen Communists to a total ,of fiftyfour years on charges of plotting/ dynamite bridges and canals, and of training bohibin-g squads for civil war.

The prosecution declared that, despite many, confiscations, thousands of home-made grenades and large quantities >of explosives were -still in the panels of Communist bodies.

BELGIAN STRIKERS

CLASH WITH POLICE. -,M.i

BRUSSELS, Julyi'lo:

• The Ministry sitting permanently-has appointed General Termonia to ttakecharge of tlie Charleroi district whither Infantry regiments have been despatched. ■i- Strikers fired the factory manager s •mansion at Marohienn'e. ihe strikers, 'marching to Charleroi along the railway line, fought a pitched battle ' with the police'. Tlie strikers ejected the spectators at Charleroi cinema.