UNREST IN SPAIN
STRONG MEASURES TO COMBAT RIOTS. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright MADRID, Wednesday. Cabinet at a special meeting considered the renewed outbreak of strikes and riots throughout the country, and decided to punish with equal severity extremists of both Right and Left. The 4 full force of the law is to be invoked in defence of the Republic, equivalent to imposing martial law. A disquieting feature has been the renewal of attempts to burn churches and convents, which last y'ear led to tb,' destruction of many art treasures. The strike epidemic in many quarters is taking a revolutionary turn. The Government has suspended the leading Roman Catholic newspaper, “El Debate,” for an editorial asserting that the Government aided the Communist attacks on the church. Workers in Galicia declared a strike throughout the province, beginning today'.
A number of men were arrested at Valencia in the act. of placing bombs against the walls of a convent. The general strike at Bilbao has ended. There were seventy arrests, including those of many distinguished persons.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 January 1932, Page 5
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