Brussels, Feb. 11.
Anti-Communist feelings runs high throughout Belgiufh today and the press and public campaign for dissolution of the Communist party hourly is gaining ground.
Chiefly responsible for the rising tude of públic opinion is the series of strikes that broke out like a rash in the Mons and Charleroi regions last week as a result of Communist agitation.
"La Gazette," itself a Liberal newspaper, took up the cudgels against the Reds with an editorial which stated:
"It cannot be doubted that for a union öt all Belgians one thing is necessary—and Socialists are convinced of this as much as all other Belgians—the dissolution of thë Corhmunist party.
"To prevent the Reds from dividing the country against its own will, it is necessary to dissolve the Communist party, which is a band of scoundrels such as the Constitution was never meant to protect."
Actual dissolution of the party would present a delicate problem from the strictly Parliamentary point of view. The only way action might be taken, political quarters stated, is by applying the proclamation ' which placed the country in a state of mobilization upon the outbreak of war.
The proclamation then issued provided for the protection of public morale and the Communist party may be dissolved in view of its propaganda and agitation.—Havas.
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