SCENES OF TERROR
Wholesale killing
REFUGEES' ACCOUNTS '
; LONDON, August 3. A refugee from Barcelona describes the shooting of many manufacturers daily. Government troops shot 18 Civil Guards suspected of rebel sympathies and buried four alive for refusing to join the Red militia. It is state/ that 610 were killed at Barcelona, the victims being taken in lorries to the hill of Tibidaba outside the town, where they were shot or their heads smashed with rifle-butts.
The largeness of the number of priests killed is explained by the fact that retiring militarists took refuge in churches and convents. Murders of employers were due to the discovery of a list of prominent business men wh,o gave money to dependants of soldiers killed in suppressing the Barcelona Red revolution of October 6,1935.
British refugees at Gibraltar from Granada describe a wholesale massacre in the town of Loja of farmers, traders, and others suspected of possessing property, by mobs of armed peasantry. Churches, banks, principal houses, and farms were burnt. There were similar scenes of savagery . at Marbella and Estepona.
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Evening Post, Issue 30, 4 August 1936, Page 9
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176SCENES OF TERROR Evening Post, Issue 30, 4 August 1936, Page 9
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