SAVAGE SCENES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 92, 18 March 1936, Page 9

SAVAGE SCENES

# THE SPANISH RIOTS. LYNCHINGS BY MOB. DEATH ROLL FIFTY-ONE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received March 18, 11.85 a.m. MADRID, March 17. The most savage rioting since the elections has occurred at Jumilla. Five Fascists imprisoned, for killing a Republican were liberated and a crowd protested to the Mayor, who ordered that the Fascists be re-arrested. The, mob attacked the police escorting the two re-arrested men, Antonio Martinez and Pedor Cuchillo. They lynched and beheaded Martinez and lynched G'uehillo, and then triumphantly paraded, bearing the head to the house of the Conservative Leader, who fired, wounding a Republican. The crowd promptly lynched the Conservative, and attempted to set fire to the police barracks, whence the police fired a volley and drove them off, wounding two. Another died of wounds inflicted by tho Fascists in the original riot. A crowd killed a wealthy pastoralist, Francisco Praede, at Baena, and set fire to the Bishop’s Palace at Cadiz. The Bishop fled to Gibraltar. Fifty-one have been killed and nineteen wounded in the recent rioting.

PRESIDENT’S ESTATE SEIZED

COMMUNIST RAID. MADRID, March 16. Communists and peasants at Briego forcibly seized the estate of President Zamora, and helped themselves to olives and began to parcel out the land. They similarly visited Alcaudente, the estate of the President’s aunt. Other landowners were held in custody by local Red leaders until guards and police restored order. President Zamora has protested to Cabinet against the present state of affairs.

In the village of Maimers a woman and child were killed. Senor Martinez Barrios, leader of the Republican Union, has been elected Speaker of the new Parliament. Senor Barrios shouted “Viva la Republica” and the cry was taken up by the Deputies. . 'The Government has prolonged tiie state of alarm for 30 days.