THE NEW SPAIN
3 P.M. EDITION
GOVERNMENT’S DRASTIC DECREE.
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received August 2i, 12.25 p.m. MADRID, Aug. 20. Tho Government has issued a drastic decree prohibiting the sale or transference on mortgage of any real or personal property of the Spanish Church or religious orders.
The banks have also been instructed to prevent any exodus of church capital from Spain. Stockbrokers are forbidden to deal in shares held in the names of Jesuits and other religious orders.
Alfonso’s palace has become the property of the people, and it will be converted, together with its priceless treasures, into a museum.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 223, 21 August 1931, Page 8
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103THE NEW SPAIN Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 223, 21 August 1931, Page 8
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