RIOTING IN MADRID

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 109, 11 May 1931, Page 9

RIOTING IN MADRID

MOB AGAINST MONARCHISTS

FEELING AT FEVER HEAT

(Eeceived 11th May, 1.30 p.m.) MADRID, 10th May. Anti-Monarchist rioting on Sunday culminated in an attmept to storm a newspaper office which was defended by powerful hydrants and a machine-gun. There was also an attempt to raid the Monarchist headquarters, which compelled the Civil Guard to fire on the crowd, causing numerous casualties. Popular resentment at the openness of Monarchist propaganda, rose to fever heat, owing to a meeting outside the Royalist headquarters, where two hundred volunteers, With a hundred motor-cars, were electioneering. A volunteer led an attack, believed to have been fatal, on a chauffeur who cheered the Republic. The crowd attacked the building and set fire to it. Four motor-cars repelled the fir© brigade. The police arrested many, but the rioters stormed the "Black Maria" and released the prisoners. They punctured the tires of another polico van, and »everely beat two Monarchist demonstrators. They also attacked the "A.8.C." newspaper office, and tried to set fire to it with, the aid of petrol. The Civil Guard opened fire, and a squadron of troops quelled the excitement, but it was feared that the suburban workers would join the rioting. However, a section departed to stone the barracks of the Civil Guard, to which the whole of Spain is hostile. Another section fired kiosks belonging to the newspaper "El Debate.'' Throngs prevented the trams working. Throughout the mght apprehension was felt regarding the morrow, when a huge demonstration of protest is to be held against the Monarchist who allegedly killed the chauffeur.