BARCELONA OUTRAGES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14132, 6 August 1909, Page 5

BARCELONA OUTRAGES.

CONTENTS BURNT . DOWN.

MURDER OF NUNS.

A GHASTLY PROCESSION.

BODIES DRAGGED THROUGH

STREETS.

By Telegraph.—Tress Association.— Copyright.

(Received August 5, 11 p.m.)

London, August 5. Reuters and other correspondents report fierce fighting on July 25, between the police and revolutionists outside Barcelona. The Marist Monastery offered a stout resistance, and three monks we're shot dead.

The mob destroyed five churches md convents in a few hours, and during the night Barcelona was given over to all the horrors of revolution. Many people were murdered, including nuns. There was no gas or electricity in the streets, and a gang of incendiaries; including women, carried torches, bundles of*straw and paper, hatchets, and petroleum, and rushed from church to church and convent to convent.

Next afternoon they sacked a number of goldsmiths' shops. The Fathers and pupils of the Jesuit monastery at Saria repelled the rioters for three days by steady rifle fire, until the artillery relieved them.

After the burning of a convent at San Jeronimo, the revolutionists disinterred the. corpses, and carried them in procession and tied ropes to the embalmed bodies of nuns and dragged them through the streets. There are now 25,000 soldiers in Barcelona." : .% .". '