RIOTING IN SPAIN
MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED. GENERAL BERENGUER REARRESTED. GREATER DISTURBANCES FEARED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) (Received 8.45 a.m.) Madrid, May 11. Martial law has been proclaimed. General Berenguer was re-arrested at the order of the Cabinet, which dismissed the Supreme Army Council for releasing him. A deputation on behalf of the mob asked Cabinet to shoot Berenguer and dismiss Senor Maura. The atmosphere at Madrid is electrical and there are-fears of greater disturbances. An angry mob set fire to two convents and is now marching on a third, others preventing firemen from extinguishing the flames. Trade unionists’ efforts to persuade workers to resume were only partially successful. Tramways and the underground railway idle in the morning resumed in the afternoon, but factories are closed.
Pouring Into City.
Mobs are pouring into the city and there are numerous military patrols in the streets. Further firing was heard this afternoon. The riots are attributed to Communists’ incitement and ridiculing the revolution, which has not improved the workers’ position. A mob set fire to the Jesuit headquarters and watched the building bur;.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3302, 12 May 1931, Page 5
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