THE RISING IN SPAIN
SPORADIC DISOEDEES
TANKS USED IN SARAGOSSA
MADRID, December 12. Troops using tanks quelled a rebel attack on the City Hall at Saragossa early this morning, after a: street battle lasting four hours. Two people were killed. The rebels attempted ,to set fire to the railway station. Three hundred rebels blew up a road bridge at Lanaja, and imprisoned all the rich inhabitants in the church, threatening to burn them alive. ■ Civic Guards are being rushed from Huesca. The Anarchists closed some textile and other factories. Tho transport strike continues. Many trains throughout Spain are nearly empty owing to train-wrecking frightening travellers.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1933, Page 9
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105THE RISING IN SPAIN Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1933, Page 9
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