SEVERE MEASURES.
Steps to Suppress Lawlessness Throughout Spain. EQUAL TO MARTIAL LAW. MADRID, January 20. Cabinet lias specially considered the renewed outbreak of strikes and riots throughout Spain, and has decided to punish with equal severity extremists of both the right and left, invoking the full force of the law, for the defence of the Republic. This is equivalent to imposing martial law. A disquieting feature has been a renewal of attempts to burn churches and convents, which last year led to the destruction of many art treasures. •Moreover, the strike epidemic in many quarters is taking a revolutionary turn. The Government has suspended the leading Romaii Catholic newspaper "El Debate" for publishing an editorial article asserting that the Government lias aided Communist attacks 011 the Chinch. A strike has been declared throughout the Galieia Province, beginning to-day. A number of men were arrested at Valencia in the act of placing bombs against the walls of a convent. The general strike at Bilbao ended in 70 arrests, including many distinguished persons.
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Auckland Star, Issue 17, 21 January 1932, Page 7
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