LAWLESS SPAIN.
Royalists Defend Churches and Convents. COMMUNISTS DRIVEN BACK. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received January 20, 11.30 a.m.) MADRID, January 19. Following an altercation between some Royalists and young Republican workers at Bilbao, in which four of the Republicans were shot dead, a general strike was declared. The city is paralysed and traffic and business are at a standstill. Following the proclamation of the general strike at Bilbao Reds and Royalists clashed. At night workmen attempted to sack the Catholic newspaper “ Gaceta del Norte ” and shot the doorkeeper. They subsequently attempted to set fire to a convent, but were repulsed by armed Royalists with several casualties. Troops guarded the principal religious buildings. Communists marched to the prison and obliged, the authorities to release two of their comrades, whom they carried shoulder high to another prison, therfi demanding the release of all the prisoners. The authorities then fired upon them and repulsed them. At Valencia incendiaries attempted to fire churches and convents. Twenty thousand textile workers struck in Barcelona. Assaults and robberies in Madrid are increasing
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 326, 20 January 1932, Page 1
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177LAWLESS SPAIN. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 326, 20 January 1932, Page 1
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