RIOT IN PRISON.
COMMUNISTS AT BARCELONA. CONVICTS START A FIRE. MADRID. Sept. 2. Communist convicts in Barcelona prison precipitated a remarkable riot which culminated in their setting fire to the prison. While the commissioner and other officials were visiting the prison in an endeavour to end a hunger strike which had begun last week, a large group of the convicts, without warning, surrounded the officials, while 500 others gathered in the courtyard. Some of them broke into the infirmary and returned with supplies of petrol and took furniture from the warders' apartments, which they set on fire, and then set fire to the printing shop and storage rooms. Mounted machine-gun sections hurriedly arrived and overwhelmed the prisoners before they had time to erect barricades. The fir© brigades quelled the blaze.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20969, 4 September 1931, Page 9
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