SPANIARDS ARRESTED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18862, 10 November 1924, Page 7

SPANIARDS ARRESTED.

EXCITING INCroENTS. PLOT AGAINST DIRECTORY. [ FRENCH PYRENEES AFFHAYS. t i By Telecrapb—Press Association—CopyrisM. (Received 1.5 a.m.) Reuter. LONDON. Not. 8. Twenty armed Spaniards have been arrested at Perpignans, in the Eastern Pyrenees, France. They have confessed that they were engaged in a plot against the Spanish Directory. A telegram from Barcelona describes the police pursuit of the suspects and a prolonged fight with revolvers in a boulevard at. San Antinio, resulting in the killing of one policeman and the wounding of another. Seven suspects were arrested, all of whom were carrying bombs and revolvers. The Spanish Embassy in London states that an armed band of 30 entered the province of Navarra from France and were forced to recross the frontier, leaving one dead and one wounded, while five were taken prisoners. ( , An attempt to seize the barracks at Barcelona was also defeated. The assailants were arrested. Great excitement continues in consequence of reports that efforts were made to smuggle arms .at many points along the frontier. Numerous arrests were made at various posts. A Madrid communique details the collision between the police and the invaders at Pamplona, near the French frontier, in which two police and five invaders were killed. Twenty-seven of the latter were arrested. The communique states that the affair was apparently part of a revolutionary movement, initiated by anarchists across the French frontier, in conjunction with Spanish syndicalist extremists. Paris newspapers report recent activity of Spaniards between Paris and the French frontier. Several parties left in motor-cars for the frontier, which they crossed.