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Show Post-election Riot Causes Gendarmes to Shoot Hniasols. Bclgnim, June 4. Tho post election riots in Belgium have taken on a revolutionary character. Following last night's troubles at Liege and other places, tho socialist central committee declared todav that It would proclaim a gonoral strike tomorrow. to-morrow. AC Antwerp one battalion of scouts and a section of artillery ol the civil guard polned the manirostants. Thov rebelled against tho police authority's and vented their foelings in demolishing demolish-ing windows Tho clerical press demands de-mands the dismissal of thcao troops. Several persons wero kILled and a score wounded In the exohonge of volleys botwoen mounted KcudarmeB and rlotcr3 at Uego. In addition to tho troubles at Liege at Vorvlers, wliero gendarmes flrod upon a cr.wd, killing or wounding more than fifty persons, among whom wero two children, thoro were less serious rlptlng at Bruges, Tourai, Ghent, Louvaln, Aqtwerp and in this city. Charge with Broad Swords Sevoral Jesuit colleges and Catholic Catho-lic institutions wero attacked and the charged tbs rioters with broad aords. A fatal encounter occurred near the Socialist headquarters known as Populate. Po-pulate. Tho firing of revolvers In tho air, the protcstants advanced through tho streets, sacking stores and cafes as they went. After they had arrived at tho headquarters Govern! Gov-ern! shots were fired within upon tho mounted gendarmes Fire at Win The commandant, thinking tho soldiers sol-diers were about to bo overwhelmed, gao tho order to firo at will and several sev-eral persons fell In tho hall of bullets bul-lets that followed, some being Instantly Instant-ly killed. At Liege enormous damago was done by tho rioters last night. Today the streets were piled high with broken tables, chairs, beams, planka and stones, tho arras used by the mob In attacks upon the police. Tho tramways wore wrecked. Tn the Place SL Lambert, tho rioters overturned the street cars and used them as barricades from behind which they hurled mlssllos at the police, injuring in-juring sevoral. Tho favorite cries of the rioters arc those demandlug the administrative separation of tho Flemish and Walloon Wal-loon provinces. Some of the newspa-ners newspa-ners renort a trrowliu: sontlmont among the working classes In tho Walloon districts of the southeast for annexation to France. Fifty thousand thou-sand additional reservists will be called call-ed out, It was said today. The aglta-cion aglta-cion is spreading throughout the country. coun-try. 4 Assail Gendarmes Verviers, Belgium, June. A mob to-lay to-lay asalled Gondarmes with missiles, l'ho lattor charged repeatedly and ivhen the rioters refused to dlsper.50 Dpened fire. Thirty of tho mob foil killed or tvoundd. Seven gendarmes were Injured. In-jured. Many arrests were made. Mob Attacks Convents. Ghent, Belgium, June 4. A score of persons wero vounded In a fight with gendnriqes. Mobs attacked several :onvents, breaking the windows of tho julldlngs The rioters also smashod ill the windows in tho stores on sev-ral sev-ral streets. Miners Strike Mons. Belgium, June 4. Two thousand thous-and miners struck today In protest igalnst the maintenance of tho present pres-ent government |