REIGN OF TERROR IN SPAIN

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 264, 4 August 1936, Page 9

REIGN OF TERROR IN SPAIN

Scenes of Great Savagery WHOLESALE MASSACRE AT LOJA By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received August 4, 12.6 a.m.) London, August 3. A refugee from Barcelona describes how many manufacturers were shot daily. Government troops shot 18 Civil Guards suspected of rebel sympathies and buried four alive for refusing to join the Red militia. It is stated that 610 were killed at Barcelona, the victims being taken in lorries to the hill of Tibidado outside the town where they were shot or their heads smashed with rifle-butts.

The largeness of the number of priests killed is explained by the fact that retiring militarists took refuge in churches and convents. The murders of employers was due to the discovery of a list of prominent business men who gave money to dependants of soldiers killed in suppressing the Barcelona Red revolution of October 6, 1935.

British refugees at Gibraltar from Granada describe a wholesale massacre in the town of Loja of farmers, traders, and others suspected of possessing property by mobs of armed peasantry. Churches, banks, principal houses, and farms were burnt. There were similar scenes of savagery at Marbella and Estepona.