VIOLENT SCENES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 694, 21 November 1933, Page 5

VIOLENT SCENES

(Press Assn.—

armed guards poste;d at every voting place elaborate precautions

-By Telegraph— Copyrlght) .

(Rec. Nov. 20.) Madrid, Nov. 19. Following a night marked by gtrikes, violeno'e, and shootings in several cities polling opened quietly in most places. This is the first election of an ordinary Cortes since the establishment of the Republic. The presence of women, who are enfranehised for the first time in their Jives, enlivened the proceedings. All day the streets were crowded by long queues in which women large]y predominated. The crowds in the capital for the 2nost part were orderly. Elaborate police precautions were taken in every city. There were armed guards at every booth, and lorries mounted with jnachino guns, were placed at all

strategic points. Mounted police patrolled the streets. There were many serious clashes between rival factions in the provincial cities. A right wing election agent was shot dead, and several others were seriously wounded at Valencia, where 35 were arrested after the discovery of a store of bombs, dynamite and firearms. One was killed and seven wounded at Seville, when 20 anarchists, brandishing revolvers, shot point blank at a number of right wing polling officers, who were going on duty. One was killed and two "wounded at Torrente, where Socialists attempted to break the ballot boxes. A nephew of the prior of the Montserrat monastery was seriously wounded when a gunman shot into a car which was taking a number of monks to the poll.