FIERCE FIGHTING.
THE HOBRORS OF A REVOLUTION. WHAT TOOK PLACE AT BARCELONA. 1 CHURCHES AND CONVENTS BURNKI) DOWN. SHOPS SACKED. l!y Cable. —Pica,. Copyright
deceived 5, 0.15 p.m. London, August 6. Keuter's and otlier correspondents » port tliuL iiurce lighting took, place at Uari'cluiia on July 25 th between the gendarmes and police and the revolutionaries. Tlie AJarist Monastery ottered a rtout resistance. Thrift monks were shot and the mob destroyed live churches and cOiivcnU. For a few hours during the night Barcelona was given over to the horrors of revolution. 'There was no gas or'electricity, uud in the streets was a gang of iaceuiliurietf, including women, who carried torches and bundles ol straw, paper, hatchatß, and petroleum. They rushed from cuurcii to church, and from convent to convent. The .next afternoon they sacked a Dumber of goldsmiths' shops. The fathers and pupils of the Jesuit Monastery at Saria repelled the riotelo for three days by steady rifle lire uatil the arrival of artillery relieved them. After burning a convent at San Jeronimo, the revolutionists disinterred the corpses of those who had been killed is the riots and carried them in a procession.
They tied ropes to the embalmed bodies, and forced nuns to drag them through the streets. . There are now 25,000 Soldiers in Barcelona, A GOOD STAND. Morocco, August 4. A detachment of sixty Spaniards held a blockhouse all Monday against a large force of Moors, who dispersed when ft relief column appeared. The Spaniards charged with great dash, cheering for Spain and the King.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 165, 6 August 1909, Page 2
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256FIERCE FIGHTING. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 165, 6 August 1909, Page 2
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