SPAIN AND HER TROUBLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 465, 7 August 1909, Page 3

SPAIN AND HER TROUBLES.

London, August 5. Reuter’s and other correspondents report that fierce fighting occurred on July 25 outside Barcelona, between the gendarmes and police on the one hand and the revolutionists on the other. The Marist Monastery offered a stout resistance. Three monks were shot. The mob destroyed five churches and convents within a few hours. During the night Barcelona was given over to the horrors of revolution. No gas nor electricity illuminated the streets. Gangs of incendiaries, including women, carrying torches, bundles of straw and paper, hatchets, and petroleum rushed from church to church and convent to convent.

Next afternoon the mob sacked a number of goldsmiths’ shops. The Fathers and pupils of the Jesuit monastery at Saria repelled the rioters for three days by steady rifle fire, until the artillery raided the siege and relieved thp de? fenders. After burning the convent at San Jeronimo the revolutionists disinterred corpses and carried them in a procession. They also tied ropes to the embalmed bodies of nuns and dragged them through the streets. There are now 25,000 soldiers in Barcelona. Morocco, August 4. The Moors, in a midnight attack, tore up 150 yards of railway before reinforcements dispersed them. Forty Spanish were wounded. A balloon is reconnoitering in the gorges and ravines of Gurugu. Le Matins’ Melilla correspondent says the Moors are extraordinarily skilful in constructing

shelters. Their sharp-shooters dig holes covered with stones, so that only the rifle barrel appears. They are able to fire at almost pointblank range. Out of ioo Spanish wounded interrogated only two had seen the enemy. A detachment of 6o Spaniards held a blockhouse all Monday against a large force of Moors, who dispersed when a relief column appeared. The Spaniards charged with great dash, cheering for Spain and the King.