THE BELGIAN RIOTS.
A MUNSTER LABOUR UPHEAVAL. PBR PRESS ASSOCIATION. Brussels, April 17. The business looses in Belgium resulting fiom a strike are estimated at £i,000,000.
Troops s'opp d 6000 at Charleroi from marching to Brussels. Many telegraph wires were cut.
The gunsmiths in Brussels and other cities have sold their entire stock of weapons and ammunition. A quarter of a. million workars struck. Thrir quietness is due to the activity ef the troops.
CIVIL WAR PREDICTED. Received 19, 0.51 a.m. Brussels, April 18. VaDdervelde, the chief Socialist leader in Belgium, asserts that 300,000 miners have struck.
The Premier, in the Chamber of Deputies, said the demand for a revision of the constitution was premature, and tbe Government might not acc»pt universal suffrage at any price. The Socialists predict that the Government's attitude will produce civil war.
The Chamber votes upon the question of revision to-day
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 89, 19 April 1902, Page 3
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146THE BELGIAN RIOTS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 89, 19 April 1902, Page 3
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