LAND SEIZED BY PEASANTS
REDS IN SPAIN
22 Killed In Clash
With Police
OUTBREAK NOT QUELLED
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright ) (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) Madrid, May 30. In a battle between . Civil Guards and Reds at Yeste, in the Albacete province, 22 peasants and one Civil Guard were killed and 50 combatants were wounded; two Civil Guards are expected to die. The clash was due to the seizure by peasants of the property of a landowner, Senor Edmunde Alfare, a former member of the Cortes. They uprooted 60 pine trees and began to cultivate the land. The police arrested 14 and were escorting them to the provincial capital when their fellow-villagers, armed with firearms and farming implements, attempted a rescue. The disturbance is not yet quelled. Storm Guards and a Red Cross ambulance have been despatched to Yeste.
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Southland Times, Issue 22904, 1 June 1936, Page 7
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