BARCELONA "NUTS."

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 922, 15 September 1910, Page 4

BARCELONA "NUTS."

\ :. BOMRrTHEOWING AS. A HABIT. %t> .'Among .the. \re turning.; ;..Wellingtonians V who arrived yesterday . by. the'.; Moana '■• from .Sydney-, was.-Mr. John*.'Donienech, .< of 'Lower Cuba '; Street,'.. who;---'. it';. will' 1 be remembered, .assisted- Mr. ' ing, in the. arrangement and translation": into Spanish of. his .catalogue: fbrV/the. - great agricultural:show at. Buenos Ayres,-: , and' who\- travel led-' to:, the country with the- famous breeder, of- Eomney,sheep.:.. . Mr. : Domenech, who was seen 'by: a ' Dominion reporter yesterday, said that ' he, had nothing to say.'about the Argen-';. tine.■.'■: He only stayed there for a few '.'; days, ;and then went on to- Spain,: to."> viait once more : the; land; of v his'birth. ~ Mr. Domenech belongs to ■; the -city-of \ Barcelona, "where' the nuts come • from," ■''-i but, in -the rudely disturbed; state; of. the;, country; he found, that there.; was a- new"' species of nut that one had to be ..very wary of. .Bomb-throwing had grown into : a habit. ;''; ' ' ''.'-.' :;-..;■:.-::■:,.-:.' :'/t tell yon thi6," said Mr. Domenech,■;'■■ '.'it is so common that no one takes much ';-''. notice:of 'a-'bomb' outrage, except; those.': who are blown into'the nest world, 'or - lose bits of .themselves;" I was 'i walking "■'•' down a street one day) when I-heard an explosion; I kept out of the ; way, but-. saw the next day in.the paper": men had been 'killed - ".by- the' -.bomb. ■' They just leave-.these things in a man's■ v office,' timed to. go bff.when he is likely.; ; to; be there. ';It'is all-:bad, but; what; can they do?'. The> merchant and : the: better class',. people i.oniy shrugs-theiiv. shoulders and. light. another cigarette." .: Mr. Domeneoh said the bomb-throwing -.; was notto be attributed.to the anarchists.;".': pr ; socialists. . Behind it all, he,said,:; was the gTeat struggle for -'supremacy-; be*-'." tween. Church : and: State.. ~-;-.; ■':•'. ■'■■'.'■',.;