THE SUFFERINGS OF THE CARLISŢS.
During the civil war in Spain the Carlists have undoubtedly been guilty of numerous wicked outrages, but the treatment to which their sympathisers .in the extreme just been treated by the victorious "Nationalists, is fitted-to extract pity from the most hard-hearted ' Influenced possibly by .the.. Miquelites or Republican Volunteers of Biscay,- who formally months have been .in the field in defence of their Jiomes and hearths. . Gen - eral Loma's soldiers, after the Carlist retreat, commenced'-a work "of devastation in a style worthy of the Romans when they ; civilised the. solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant" Fires were lit in all directions, numerous .houses were burned down, and many -people, suddenly made homeless, sought refuge in the mountains or across the French fronti r. What, sufferings the retreating soldiers themselves must have • suffered may be ; judged from the report that in their forced march to Lesaca,- when they were seeking to escape from their pursuers, 50 of their number were frozen to death !
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 311, 12 February 1875, Page 3
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165THE SUFFERINGS OF THE CARLISŢS. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 311, 12 February 1875, Page 3
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