SPANISH OUTRAGES

Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1933, Page 5

SPANISH OUTRAGES

GANG- ARRESTED

ANARCHIST AGENTS’ WORK.

(United Frees Association—By Electric

Telegraph—Copyright.)

MADRID, December 16. The-identity of the directors of the anarchist revolutionary outrages has been established by the arrest at Saragossa of a gang including one, Puente, the editor of an anarchist newspaper, an author, a dictor and three others. Tile police tracked a pretty girl to her flat at the top of a fashionable apartment house. The police then entered through the roof ol the house, and they found documents revealing the whereabouts of the gang, who were captured as the result of a raid. They were taken with two young women, one of whom is the sister of the first- girl. The girls are believed to be the mistresses of two of the prisoners. The search revealed documents disclosing that there has been a systematised organisation throughout Spain, also showing that a surprising number cf well-armed, good-looking young women have been involved in the organisation, one of whom was arrested when driving a motor car containing one hundred pistols.

ENCOURAGEMENT TO FASCISM LONDON, December 18.

The “Daily Herald’s” Madrid correspondent describes the new Spanish Cabinet, led by Senor Lerroux in which there are ten ’Radicals, as a distinct encouragement to Fascism. He says that Senor Lerroux has enlisted the support of all of the reactionary groups in order to secure a majority and to meet the fierce opposition of sixty Socialists. t \ .

The supporters of Senor Lerroux will demand a, pardon for all of the political prisoners, thereby enabling all of the .exiled supporters of the past dictatorships to return to Spain, whereupon, says the correspondent, Fascism will -be definitely nearer.