More Socialist Riots.
(by electric telegraph— copybigtht) (reuter's telegiiams.) Brussels, March 19. Serious rioting 'occurred at Siege yesterday on the occasion of a demonstration of Socialist agitators and unemployed laborers. A large number .of windows were smashed, shops were sacked and , pillaged and. their contents carried away. A 1 large- force of ..-gendarmerie endeavored to quell the outbreak and charged the mob- several times eventually subduing the rioters and raak : ing over a hundred arrests. The amount of damage done cannot yet be estimated but is known to be immense.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1663, 20 March 1886, Page 4
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