MOB RULE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 579, 6 August 1909, Page 5

MOB RULE.

WEIRI) MARCH: DfiSECRAtED CORPSES. BURNING OF CONVENtS. . REBELS' NIGHT IN BARCELONA., , (By Teiegraph.-l'resß, Assoclallon.-bopyricbU (Rec. August >5, 9.55 p.m.) I . London, August '$. Router's and otlier correspondents . report that fierce fighting occurred on July 25 outside Barcelona, between the goiukirmes. and police, .on the one hand and the revolutionists on tho other: : The Marist Monastery offered ■ a stout resistance. Three ; monks wore shot. " The mob destroyed five churches and'conventa within, a few hours. • During the night v ßarce.lona was given over to'tho horrors of revolution. No gas nor electricity illuminated, the streets. Gangs of incendiaries, including women, carrying torches, bundles of straw and paper, hatchets, a.ild petroleum rushed from church to church, and convent to convent. Next afternoon tho mob sacked a number of goldsmiths' shops. 'Tho Fathers and pupils of the Jesuit monastery at Satia impelled 'tho rioters F br throe days hy ; steady rifle fire, until the artillery raised the siege and relieved ttio defenders. After burning the convent at San Jeronimo tho revolutionists disinterred corpses and oarried them in a procession.^ They also tied ropes to the embalmed bodies of nuns and dragged them through the streets.. There are now 26,000 soldiers in Barcelona. In morocco,. ', HOLDING OF A BLOCKfiOIJSfi. ■.;.'' '..'.. Morocco, August i, A : detachment of. sixty Spaniards held a blockhouse all day on Monday against a largo force of MoofSj Who dispersed when a relief column appeared. ; The Spaniards charged .'the' enemy with great dash, cheering for Spain and the King.