RIOTS IN BELGIUM
CATHOLIC VICTQKY AT ELECTIONS THREE KILLED AND MAN Y INJtJBED. DEMONSTRATION AGAINST CATHOLICS. (Received Last Night, 9.50 o'clock.) BRUSSELS, June 4. The elections resulted in a Catholic majority of sixteen, over the combinedliberals and Socialists. T.v--e were many disturbances, and +V wi-lows of Catholic Clubs were The tlemomtrators at Ghent smashed the window of the Nobles' Club, *nd fired revolver shots. Th-rea Socialists at Liege were killed •aid fifteen wounded during a gendar■ems' raid on the Socialists headnu.nrters. , , , i Elsewhere the Socialists deraued Xjrji.illS* The troops occupied Liege. A large number of demonstrator* pobVe and civic guards were amjnrcd. ■ There were numerous arrests. Th» crowds at Brussels threatened -the Catholic establishments, and the gendarmes repeatedly charged ana made arrests. •
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10650, 5 June 1912, Page 5
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122RIOTS IN BELGIUM Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10650, 5 June 1912, Page 5
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