MOROCCO AND SPAIN.
A SPANISH '.VICTORY
Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright
MOROCCO, August 4
A'detachment of 000 Spaniards held a blockhouse all Monday against a largo force of Moors,- who dispersed when a relief column, appeared. The Spaniards charged with great dash, cheering for Spain and the. King.
FIERCE FIGHTING
HORROP.S OF REVOLUTION
Received 9.50 p.m., August sth
LONDON, August 5
Renter's and other correspondents report fierce fighting on July 25th, between the gendarmes, police, and revolutionists outside Barcelona. The Marist monastery offered a stout resistance, and three monks wei-e shot. The mob. destroyed five churches and convents in a few hours. During the night Barcelona- was given over to t]ie horrors of the -revolution. There was no. gas or electricity.in the streets, and gangs of incendiaries, iheluding-women, carried torches,.'bundles'of straw, paper,' hatchets and jwtrolo.ura, . rushed from" church to church, and convent to convent. The-, next afternoon the mob sar-ke.l a number of goldsmiths' shops. The lathers and pupils of the Jesuit monastery at Sarin expelled the rioters for three days by a steady rifle fire, until the artillery relieved them. -.
After burningthe ■convent of Ran Joronimo the revolutionistsdisinterred the corpses and carried "them in procession, tied ropes to the embalmed' bodies of .nuns and dragged'them through the streets. ■'
There are now , 25,000 soldiers in Barcelona.
MOROCCO AND SPAIN.
Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13973, 6 August 1909, Page 5
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