THE SPANISH RIOTS.
PRISONERS COURT-MARTIALLED. SHOT IN BATCHEβ, ARRESTS'CONTINUE TO BE MADE, IDy TaloßraphWPresi Amoelitloß.-Ooorrlclil.l • London, August 6; The "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at Barcelona, telegraphing from Capo Corbcro, in Southern France, Bays thorb are one, thousand prisoners in tho Montjuioh fortress in Barcelona. They aro mostly dupes,' including women and boys, since. tho leading Tβ-, volufcionists' escaped. A court-martial has been sitting all day, and rioters taken red-handed, or smelling of petroleum, or showing traces of gunpowder, are found guilty and shot in batches a fev? hours later. • Tho "Daily Express" correspondent reporte that one hundred and sixty people havo been shot since July 31 by firing squads of forty infantry in tho courtyard of the fortress, in tho presence of tho garrison. Arrests ■ continue to bo made, owing to some of the condemned accepting a respite in return for giving the authorities tho name? of revolutionists. The Spanish Government has suspended? money payments.in.liou of personal service in tho army.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 581, 9 August 1909, Page 5
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160THE SPANISH RIOTS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 581, 9 August 1909, Page 5
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