SAVAGERY IN SPAIN
CIVIL GUARDS LYNCHED
PEASANT MOB'S OUTBREAK
(Times Cable.) LONDON, 3rd January. The Madrid correspondent' of "The Times" says a barbaric outbreak occurred at the village of- Castilblaneo, following subversive propaganda, culminating in many districts in frequent rioting. Four Civil Guards were making an effort to quieten <'Eed Flag" demonstrators when a corporal was struck on the.head with a stone. He was then stabbed in the neck.
The guards fired in self-defence, killing one rioter. The mob then wolfishly attacked ana lynched the guards, battering their heads and faces to a jelly, and filling their bodies with bullets and knife wounds.
Women joined in a mad dance about the bodies, which were left lying in the streets. Forty arrests were made, including five women.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1932, Page 7
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