RIOTING IN MADRID

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 110, 12 May 1931, Page 7

RIOTING IN MADRID

SOME UGLY INCIDENTS STRONG MONARCHIST CAMP CIVIL GUARDS OPEN FIRE ( By Telcgrapn—Press Association—Copyright] MADRID, Alay 10. There was anti -Monarchist rioting on Sunday culminating In an attempt to storm a newspaper office, which was de fended by powerful hydrants and a machine-gun. There was also an at tempt to raid the Monarchist headquar lets, which compelled the Civil Guai-I • o lire on the crowd, causing numerous casualties Popular resentment at the openness ui the Alonarchist propaganda rose to lever heat owing t< a meeting outside (he royalists’ hea (quarters, where 200 i i 'unteers with ICC motor-cars were ■itctioneering. A volunteer led the at |;it., which it is believed was fa H il. hi a chauffeur who cheered the Republic. The crowd attacked the building and fired four motor-cars and repelled tee fire brigade. The police, arrest.? i many, but the rioters stormed the Black Pa ria and released the prisoners and punctured tho tyres of another police \ an and severely jeat two Monarchists. The demonstrators attacked tin A.B.C. newspaper an I tried to ignite t with the aid of petrol. The civil .uards opened fire. A squadron of roops quelled the excitement, but it uh? feared that the suburban workers would join in the rioting. However, a section departed to stone the barracks of the civil guard, to which the whole of Spain is hostile. Another section set fire to kiosks be longing to the news] aper El Debate. Throngs prevented the trains work iug throughout tho night and approIllusion was felt regarding the morrow, whin a demonstration is being held against the Alonarchist for allegedly killing a chaffeur. NEW MONARCHIST LEADER INCREASING LAWLEBBNEBB Received Alay 1.1, 9.37 p.m. London, May 11. The Daily Mail’s Aladrid correspon dent says that the Alonarchists have elected the Marquis Luca de Tena, editor of the A. B. C. as their leader. He was injured during the rioting, as was Senor Alaura, Minister of the Interior, Duke Santo, the Marquis de Camerines, and many other prominent monarchists. The Government have suppressed the A. B. C. Tho Times’ Aladrid correspondent states that an unusual series of crimes during the past week corroborates signs of increasing lawlessness. Two men in the Asturias held up a train, shot the civil guard and robbed, a bank cashi'i carrying miners’ wages. There have been armed robberies in Bilboa and Saragossa. Peasants at another place waylaid a priest after Mass, at a lonely hermitage and hacked him to pieces. Bishop Leon has received many complaints of disrespect towards the cloth. These crimes, accompanied by the discovery of stores of firearms and bombs, have caused a semi-panic on the exchange, Government stocks falling to the lowest point in the present century. A man was trampled to death at Pucrlodesloi. He fired a shot wounding a man who was listening to a speech by the Minister of Finance, thus starting a panic. The crowd thereupon lynched the gunman.