IN SPAIN

Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1931, Page 5

IN SPAIN

MONARCHIST LEADER INJURED. ,United Pres., Association—By ElectricTelegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON. May It. [lie ‘‘Daily Mail’s” Madrid i-om-s----poiulent says: The Monarchists have elected .Marquis Luca di T< mi, the editor of the newspaper “A.M.C.” as their leader. .'an qnis Luca di 'Pena was injured during rioting. Senor Maura, the Minister of tin Interior, was also injured during ra ring. Duke Santo Marquis De Camenm', and many other prominent Monarchists wore among those injured in idle rioting. Tim Republican Government have suppressed the newspaper "A.8.C.” martial law proclaimed. TWO CONVENTS BURNED. FEARS OF FURTHER DISTURBANCE. . .MADRID, May 11. Martial law has been proclaimed. General Berenguer was re-arrested at the orders of Cabinet, which has dismissed the Supreme Army Council, for releasing him. A deputation, on behalf of the mob, asked Cabinet to shoot Reronguer and dismiss Senor Maura, The atmosphere at Madrid is electrical and there are fears of greater disturbnnc-efl.

An angry mob fired two convents and are now marching on a third.

Others are preventing th 0 firemen -extinguishing the flames. Trad,, unionists’ efforts to persuade workers to resume were only partially successful.

The tramways mud underground railways were idle in the morning but resumed in the afternoon, but the factories are closed. Mobs are pouring into the city ami there are numerous military patrols in the streets. Further firing was heard this afternoon. The riots are attributed to 'Communist incitement and ridiculing the revolution which has not improved the worker’s position. MOD FIRES BUILDING. MADRID, May 11A mob fired one of the Jesuit headquarters and watched the building burn.

MOBS RUN WILD. (Received this day at 1.5 n.m., -MADRID, May VI. While mobs were burning convents and churches', demonstrators .were processioning outside the Ministry ot the Interior, demanding the shooting of Generals Berenguer and Mol a., and the disarming of the Civil Guard. Cabinet sat throughout the day devising measures to restore older, believing the disturbances originated in resentment at Berenguer’s liberation. Cabinet has ordered his re-arrest and the dismissal of the military tribunal which refused to'demand his prosecution. Berenguer was placed in a military prison.

To-night it was officially announced that ten churches and convents had been burned. The most serious event was the burning of the Jesuit headquarters and industrial school.

Shots were fired from buildings and two rioters were seriously wounded. Crowds throughout the City watched the spectacular blazes. The garrison has been heavily reinforced and Civil Guards are occupying strategic points, while tanks have been posted at tho Bank of Spain. The City is calming down and shops re-opened in the evening. The rioting apparently was not surprising to the Jesuits, who reported that their valuables had been sent to Rome and other centres months ago. Though five Convents were destroyed nobody was burned, no valuables were stolen and there was no looting.