RIOTS IN SPAIN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 126, 10 March 1936, Page 5

RIOTS IN SPAIN

ELEVEN KILLED, 24 WOUNDED. NAZI FLAG BURNED AT CADIZ. HAULED DOWN FROM CONSULATE TEN CHURCHES DESTROYED. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) MADRID, March 9Riots in various towns resulted in 11 being killed and 24 wounded. Troops are preserving order in Cadiz after a week-end of rioting in which the Catholic Church, Convent ana school were burned down. Rioters raided another convent and burned a statue of Jesus in the street, savagely beat two journalists, and hauled down and burned the Nazi flag at the German Consulate. The German Charge d’Affaires protested to the Government, which promised avoidance of similar incidents. Troops with machine-guns patrolled the streets in motor coaches. Public buildings are guarded. The police shot a Communist in the course of a disturbance at Toledo, whereupon a general strike was declared, stopping all business during the passage of his funeral. Revolutionaries destroyed nine churches and four Conservative clubs in various towns. Escalona was the scene of a gun-fight involving one death. Two were killed at Castril, one at Palencia, one at Sepille, and one at Baracaldo.