CONDITIONS IN SPAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 113, 14 May 1937, Page 9

CONDITIONS IN SPAIN.

MISS HOLLAND'S EXPERIENCES

At a meeting of the international circle of the Lyceum Club held yesterday afternoon an interesting lecture on the conditions in Spain was given by Miss A. Holland, who hae recently ■travelled in that country. Since tjie revolution, said Miss Holland, Spanish women and girls have earned their freedom. Greater educational facilities have been given them and three women members have been included in the first republican Parliament. Miss Holland described stirring scenes she had witnessed in the revolution of 1911, when surging crowds marched up the street of Malaga. Red flags were waved and a portrait of the King was torn down in the street. In 1931 Miss Holland saw 12 convents burning at the same time in Madrid. It was during this period that the Jesuits were expelled and all their property confiscated. The speaker described the beautiful cities of Spain with all their priceless art treasures, and deplored the fact that so many of them had been destroyed in the civil war.

The convener of the circle, Airs. F. Bauer, presided, and after the talk a Coronation eong was given by Mrs. Dixon.