RIOTERS OUTWITTED
Statues Under “Arrest”
SPANISH DISTURBANCES (Received March 19, 5.5 p.m.) Madrid, Jlarch 18. Communists having made a bonfire of all church statues at Yecla, municipal authorities at El Saucejo, taking a leaf from Germany’s book, “protectively arrested” and took to prison all of the local religious statues, thereby c-utwitting the rioters who threatened to bomb a church. Two men were killed in a riot at Oviedo and one at Ocano as the result of a jail disturbance, which guards suppressed. An employee entered a Barcelona cafe and interrupted a game of cards by shooting two players, killing one and wounding the other. Two gunmen robbed a Stock Exchange messenger of £345. They were chased over roofs and captured by police and soldiers. The Government has closed Fascist centres throughout Spain.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 150, 20 March 1936, Page 11
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