RIOT ON GERMAN LINER.
COMMUNISTS AT NEW YORK. ANTI-FASCIST DEMONSTR ATION. NEW YORK, August 22. Several hundred Communists, Remonstrating against Germany’s attitude in the Spanish rebellion, created a riot aboard the liner Bremen just before she sailed on Friday night. As a result of a riot some time ago the pier officials were careful to exclude agitators, andi the Communists boarded the ship through the ruse of dressing in evening clothes, strolling up the gangway in small groups. At a given signal they started distributing anti-Fascist pamphlets, and shouting, “Hitler must be kept out of Spain.” When the crew tried to remove them a free-for-all fight starred with chairs as clubs, to the consternation of the 800 passengers and 3000 visitors. An emergency squad of 70 police finally dispersed the Communists, after arresting a dozen of’ them for disorderly conduct. Although a number suffered cuts and bruises, there were no serious injuries. PRIEST SPEAKS FOR GOVERNMENT. “PEOPLE DO NOT HATE GOD.” MADRID, August 22. Father Garcia Morales, a Catholic priest known throughout Spain, in a broadcast address praised Basque Catholics for supporting the Government, adding. “The people do not hate God or the Catholic Church, but resent those priests who are supporting the forces of reaction. I hate the hierarchy supporting those who brought hack the Moors who were expelled from Spain only after eight centuries of warfare.” j
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 267, 24 August 1936, Page 5
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