MADRID RESIDENTS DEPRESSED.
HUNDREDS OF PRIESTS IN GAOLS. MILLIONAIRE’S HOUSE SEIZED. (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m. LONDON, August 21. The Madrid correspondent of “The Times” says that despite the relative tranquillity of the capital, the knowledge that they are facing a long, bitter struggle, combined with the departure of foreigners, has increased the depression of thd inhabitants, many of whom are facing ruin and ale unable to leave owing to- the difficulty regarding passports and money. Food is fairly plentiful. The newspapers are limited to four pages, owing to the insurgents capturing the paper mills. Moreover, there is little to print but speeches and communiques. Three special prisons are crammed with over 2500 officers, Monarchists and Fascists, including nine generals. Hundreds of priests, many of whom lived in palaces and fashionable home's, are now in prison or in hiding, their residences being occupied by various partisans, raising the question who is to pay the future rates and taxes thereon.
A great prize! was the house of a millionaire, Senor Juan March, to which the occupants invite passing comrades to enjoy a shower-bath in the silver bathroom,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 266, 22 August 1936, Page 5
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186MADRID RESIDENTS DEPRESSED. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 266, 22 August 1936, Page 5
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