SOCIALIST RIOTS IN BELGIUM. Brussels, March 19.
Serious riots occurred at Liege yesterday, 011 the occasion of the demonstration of the Socialist agitators and unemployed labourer*. A large number of windows were smashed, -shops were sacked and pillaged, and their contents knocked about the streets. A large force of gendarmerie endeavoured to quell the outbreak, and charged the mob several times, eventually cowing the rioters and making over a hundred arrests. The amount o£ damage done cannot be estimated as yet, but it is known to be immense.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2138, 23 March 1886, Page 2
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88SOCIALIST RIOTS IN BELGIUM. Brussels, March 19. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2138, 23 March 1886, Page 2
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