REVOLT IN SPAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1920, Page 5

REVOLT IN SPAIN.

MUTINY IN TWO CITIES. TROOPS PATROL THE STREETS, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Jan. 13, 7.2! i p.m. Madrid, Jan. 10. Those arc mutinous revolutionary , movements at Barcelona and Saragossa. 1 The Government is acting drastically. \ i Lenders have been arrested and a cor- ■ poral and six privates were courtt martialled and shot for mutiny at Sara--1 gossa. 2 Martial law has been declared and . officers have been recalled from leave. 2 Troops and gendarmes patrol the r streets. The syndicalist leader Chueca . was killed during an attack on a barracks. The constitutional parties in Parliament rallied to the Government after a critical debate.—Times Service. ' Received Jan. 14, 12.10 a.m. Madrid, .lan. 11. During the Saragossa. riots, soldiers at--1 tacked a barracks, and a lieutenant was 1 killed. The outbreak was suppressed af- ' ter the leader was killed and several ' were wounded.-—Aua.-N.Z. Cable Assn. J [Barcelona, was the scene of similar , disturbances last year, when the revolutionary movement created a serious situation for a time. Barcelona is the most populous industrial centre of Spain, tlie province having a population of over a million. In recent times Barcelona lias been the centre of repeated separatist and republican movements, and of labor riots and anarchial outbreaks. Saragossa is a city of over • 400,000 people, 170 miles from Madrid.]