STRIKE ABANDONED

Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1933, Page 5

STRIKE ABANDONED

RIOT'S CONTINUE

SPANISH CRISIS IS PASSING.

(United Press Association —ihy Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

MADRID, Dec II

The peak-point of the insurrection in Spam seems to have passed, with the abandonment of the idea of a revolutionary general strike. The Army remains loyal. The Catholics and the Agrarians arc supporting the Government. The troops, using tanks, quelled the rebel attack on the city hall at Saragossa early in the morning after a street battle lasting for tour hours. Only two people were killed. The rebels attempted to set fire to the railway station.

Soldiers were despatched to expel some armed miners who wore occupying live villages on the banks of the Sil river.

-Tin •ee hundred rebels blew up a road bridge at Lanaja. They imprisoned all of the rich inhabitants in a church, threatening to burn them alive, but civic guards are rushing there from Huesco.

Algeria’s British tourist excursions to Spain have been abandoned owihg to tlie serious disturbance, and British leaveh has been stopped at Gibraltar. Shooting in Barcelona ended at daybreak, the number of casualties being suppressed. All the public buildings there are guarded for fear of any recurrence of disturbances. Civil guards with machine guns barricaded a road. A bomb in Civil Guards barracks injured two people: A bridge was bombed at Sanadres, and the Villa Franca railway bridge was dynamited. A majority of workers are idle through the strike and standstill of the transport. Revolutionaries led by a sergeant of the Foreign Legion barricaded themselves in an abandoned convent at Villanueva Serena. The (government forces fusiladecl them, and fired a shell through the roof. Eventually they broke in and captured the defenders, except four, who were dead. The Foreign Legionary and others were unearthed from a cellar. One sergeant, and one ; private of the civil guard, were killed and one was wounded. Two rebels were killed and three civil guards were wounded in a disturbance at Alcui'iza, where rebels fired a fusilade and three hand grenades at civil guards from Valencia.

Eighteen were arrested. Anarchists closed some textile and other factories.- . A transport strike continues.

Many trains throughout Spain are nearly empty, owing to the recent train wrecking frightening travellers.

OUTBREAKS NOT YET CRU HEO

SPANISH PREMIER SI OPINION

LONDON, Dec. 12.

The “|)ail,y Telegraph’s” Madrid correspondent states: The Premier of Spain, Senor Martinez Marrios, in intervals between conversations over four telephones on his desk, told me that lie does not consider the outbreak is yet. entirely crushed. . He is prepared for trouble for a few days longer. This is unavoidable in places where, communications are bad. Asked j where the money came from to finance an outbreak by the Communists and i Syndicalist on such a scale, he re- | replied: “I am informed that large i sums spent on bombs, arms and transI port were supplied by certain parties ! participating in the elections for their own purpose, whatever that may be.” This goes to confirm a statement made frequently \by 'theiii opponents that : some conservatives and monarchists financed the movement.