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Show PAPERS CAN NOT ISSUE I Printers on Fifteen of BrussePs Papers Join National Strike Laborers La-borers Maintain Determined De-termined C h a r a cter Throughout the Provinces Prov-inces Urussels, April IS The strike of all the union printers lure tomorrow will bring home to residents of the Belgian capital the effects of the great national strike far more forcibly ! than the crippling of industry in other oth-er parts of the country has done Most of tho 15 dailv papers here will be unable to publish. A few papers will appear In reduced form Today's estimates of the number of strikers makes the total between 350 -000 and 875,000, The movement maintains main-tains its determined character throughout the provinces. Return to Work. Herstal. Belgium, April IS. -An inclination in-clination to return to work is shown by the employes of the government arsenal here Of the :: m.-n employed, em-ployed, 101 went back to their occupations occu-pations today. Schoolboys Strike. Charleroi. Belclum. April IS The, masters of a suburban boys' school today demanded that the authorities remove a detachment of soldiers who had been stationed In the school building. The local military commandant com-mandant refused to comply, whereupon where-upon the schoolboys struck. None of them attended school this morning. Feeds Strikers' Children. La Louviere, Belgium, April 18. The proprietor of the leading machine worl:s here has taken over entire ! of the feeding of the children Br oi L ' ii strikers from his own factory. Br Rowdies Bresk Wlndowi. Wu JenappeSj Belgium, April J8. Rov- mti'; ing bands of rowdies broke hundreds of windows In the houses of non- Wrti strikers in this district early today. &r |