TROUBLE IN SPAIN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17382, 10 November 1924, Page 10

TROUBLE IN SPAIN.

REVOLUTIONARIES ACTIVE.

5" Telegraph Reuter’s Telegrams. EON DO N, No vember S. Thill tlicru hat- been trouble in Spam appears from telegrams from Perpignan ;iunounring tile arrest of twenty Spaniards, who emirs, ed that they were engaged in a plot against the t)irectory. A telegram from Barcelona describes a police pursuit of suspects and a prolonged tight with revolvers in a boulevard at San Antonio, resulting in the killing of one policeman and the wounding of another and also the arrest of seven suspects, all carrying bombs and revolvers. The Spanish Embassy in London states that an armed band of thirty entered the Province of Navarra from France and was forced to re-cross the frontier, leaving one dead, one wounded and five prisoners. An attempt to seize the barracks at Barcelona was also defeated and the assailants arrested. Great excitement continues in consequence of reports that efforts have been made to smuggle in arms at many points along the frontier. Numerous arrests have been made at various posts. A Madrid' communique details a collision between the police and the invaders at Pamplona, near the French frontier, in which two police and five invaders were killed, and twenty-seven of the latter arrested. 'Flic communique states that the affair, apparently, is part of a. revolutionary movement initiated hy Anarchists across the French frontier, in conjunction with Spanish syndicalist extremists. Paris newspapers report the recent activity of Spaniards between Paris and the French, frontier. Several parties left in motor-cars for the frontier, which they crossed on foot.