VIOLENCE IN SPAIN

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21760, 17 April 1936, Page 13

VIOLENCE IN SPAIN

FOUR KILLED AND MANY INJURED

PREMIER’S ADVICE “TIME TO STOP SHOOTING ONE ANOTHER” (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received April 16, 7.5 p.m.) MADRID, April 15. Students at the School of Mining and Engineering have struck as a protest against the employment of French engineers. A general strike has paralysed Pamplona, where milk was poured from lorries and vegetables thrown into the river. Soldiers were requisitioned to make bread. Two were killed and fifteen wounded at Jerez de la Frontera, the headquarters of the sherry industry, when the police prevented, communists from setting fire to Carmelite and Franciscan convents The demonstrators proclaimed a 24-hour strike and imprisoned several priests and Right Wing followers, of whom one was wounded. Two were killed and six wounded at Gata.

Senor Manuel Azana (the Premier), in his initial speech in the Cortes, sketched the grave national situation. He announced the preparation of laws to reinforce the revenues, procure reforms, and consolidate the political representation of the lower classes to enable close co-operation with the league in order to organise peace, while preserving a policy of self-determina-tion. It was high time Spaniards ceased shooting one another. The session adjourned after the soprano voices of the women deputies had led a storm of interruptions.