VIOLENCE IN SPAIN
ELEVEN PEOPLE KILLED RIOTERS BURN CHURCHES (Uniter) Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) MADRID, March 9. Riots in various towns resulted in 11 people being killed and 24 wounded, troops preserving order in Cadiz after week-end rioting in which a Catholic church, convent, and school were burned down. Rioters raided another convent, burned a statue of Jesus in the street, savagely beat two journalists, and hauled down and burned the (lag of the German Consulate.
The Charge d'Affaires protested to the Government, which has promised avoidance of similar incidents.
Troops with machine guns patrolled the streets in motor coaches, and public buildings w r ere guarded. The police shot a Communist in the course of a disturbance at Toledo, whereupon a general strike was declared, stopping all business during the passage of his funeral. Revolutionaries have destroyed nine churches apd four conservative clubs in various towns. Escalona w'as the scene of a gun fight involving one death. Two were killed at Castril, one at Palencia, one at Seville, and one at Baracaldo. NAZI FLAG TORN DOWN MADRID, March 9. Wild demonstrations at Cadiz culminated in an attack on the German Consulate. The Nazi flag was torn down and burnt.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22827, 11 March 1936, Page 10
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