UNREST IN SPAIN

Evening Star, Issue 20995, 8 January 1932, Page 9

UNREST IN SPAIN

♦- REVOLT IMPENDING ESTABLISHMENT OF DICTATORSHIP Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 6. The Madrid correspondent of the f News-Chronicle ’ reports that although the Prime Minister denies rumours of an impending revolt by civil guards and the establishment of a dictatorship, the situation is serious, and developments are anticipated. Hungry peasants are continuing to clash with the constabulary. The casualties in four villages in forty-eight hours totalled twelve killed and sixty seriously wounded. RIOTING AT ARNEDO SEVEN PEOPLE KILLED. MADRID, January 6. Fierce rioting at Arnedo resulted in seven deaths, including four women, one septuagenarian, and a child ip its mother’s arms. Ten men and five women were severely injured. The outbreak followed the dismissal of eight factory workers, resulting in a general strike. The demonstrators, screened by .women and children, rushed towards the civil guards, and a Herculean rioter seized a guardsman’s rifle and broke it in three pieces. Another shot a corporal in the ankle. The guards then fired into the crowd. The roads around Arnedo were strewn with tacks to prevent the arrival of reinforcements. The police have received information of riot plots in various parts of the country, indicating a widespread conspiracy. The three Socialist Ministers in the .Cabinet have opened a fund for the families of the Arnedo victims. Twenty Socialist deputies will attend .the funeral.