ANTI-CATHOLIC RIOTS.
STREET FIGHTING IN SPAIN.
SEVERAL CONVENTS BURNED
(Uniteu Press Association —Copyright} ''Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) MADRID, October 18.
Anti-Catholic riots occurred in many Spanish cities, including Bilbao, Saragosso and Oviedo, where convents were set on fire. Eighteen persons were seriously injured in street fighting at Vallodolid. , » REVOLUTIONARY DIVORCE LAW. CATHOLIC PROTEST FRUITLESS. (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) MADRID, October 18 v The Cortes approved a revolutionary divorce law permitting marriages to be dissolved by mutual consent or on petition by either husband or wife provided there is.just cause. Staunch Catholics opposed the new measure, which is regarded as a most sweeping social change.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 52, Issue 7, 19 October 1931, Page 5
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