122 ARRESTS IN MADRID
ARMED CLASHES WITH UNDERGROUND
TWO KILLED DURING POLICE DRIVE
(Rec. 9 p.m.) MADRID, March 15. Police in Madrid arrested 122 persons and killed two others in armed clashes during a month’s drive against the underground movement following the bombing of the Argentine Embassy and police headquarters on Feb-, ruary 14. Fifty-three of those arrested were accused of direct responsibility for the bombings. A police communique describing the investigations said that as a result of the arrests a car used in various underground attacks had. been found. Three men tried to steal it from police guards, who killed one and arrested the two others. Through those two an arms cache was found and the names of underground leaders learned. An armed raid on a secret meeting place followed, and a leader was killed.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25135, 17 March 1947, Page 7
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