FACING CIVIL WAR
MANY OMINOUS SIGNS
SYMPTOMS OF UNREST
MADRID, March 11. Spain faces civil war as a result of the dissolution of the Confederation of Labour and the closing of the headquarters of the Socialist youth movement. The Government has ordered the prosecution of associations planning revolutions. Panic-stricken householders are laying in provisions and bottling drinking water. In Orense attempts were made to disorganise the electric light service. Agitators killed two police and a bystander with bombs. A Government Judge ordered the dissolution of the extremist National Confederation of Labour, which claims one million members. Three hundred Communists have been arrested in various cities. Many minor clashes are reported. Fifteen thousand metal workers in Madrid have struck. Thirty Red newspapers throughout the country have been suspended. Many secret meetings were raided.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 60, 12 March 1934, Page 7
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FACING CIVIL WAR
Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 60, 12 March 1934, Page 7
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