UNREST IN SPAIN
“RED” ACTIVITIES
CLASHES WITH ROYALISTS, Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received Wednesday, 9.10 a.m.) MADRID, Tuesday. Following upon the proclamation of a strike at Bilbao, ‘‘Reds” and Royalists clashed. At night workmen attempted to sack the Catholic newspaper, ‘ ‘ Gaceta Del Norto” and shot the doorkeeper. They subsequently attempted to set a convent on fire but were repulsed by armed Royalists, with several casualties. Troops guarded the principal religious buildings. The Communists marched to a prison and obliged the authorities to release two comrades and carried them, shoulder high, to another prison, demanding the release of all prisoners, but the authorities fired and i<pulsed them. Vallneeia incendiaries attempted to fire churches and com cuts. Some 20,000 textile workers struck in Barcelona. Assaults and robberies in Madrid are increasing.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 January 1932, Page 5
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