PRISONERS RIOT
AND GAOL SET ON FIRE. (United Preso Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 1.5 p.rn.) BARCELONA, September 2. Communist convicts in Barcelona prison, precipitated a remarkable riot which culminated in setting fire to the prison, when the Commissioner and other officials were visiting the gaol, in an endeavour to end a hungerstrike, which began last week. A large group of convicts, without warning, surrounded the officials while five hundred • others gathered in a courtyard. Some broke into the infirmary and returned with supplies of petrol, and furnitur4 from the warders apartments which they set on fire, then setting fire to the printing shop and storage rooms. Mounted machine gun sections hurl riedly arrived and overwhelmed the prisoners before they had time to erect barricades. The fire brigades quelled the blaze.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1931, Page 6
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