CHANGES IN SPAIN
CORTES AND CHURCH
NEW DIVORCE LAW PASSED
ANTI-CATHOLIC RIOTS
United Press Association—By Electric Tele
graph—Copyright. (Received 19th October, 11 a.m.) MADRID, 18th October.
The Spanish Cortes has approved a revolutionary divorce law permitting marriages to be dissolved by mutual consent or on petition by either husband or wife provided there is just cause. Staunch Catholics are appalled. The new measure is regarded as a most sweeping social change. AntiRoman Catholic riots tookplacein many Spanish cities, including Bilbao, Saragossa, and Oviedo, where convents were set afire. Eighteen people were seriously injured in street fights in Valladolid.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 95, 19 October 1931, Page 7
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