BARCELONA REVOLT.
RIOTERS-SHOT. A THOUSAND PERSONS ARRESTED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. LONDON, August 6. Tha "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at Barcelona, telegraphing from Cape Cerbere, in Southern France, saya there are one thousand prisoners in the Montjuich fortress in Barcelona. They are mostly dupes, including women and boys, since the leading revolutionists escaped.
A court martial has been sitting all day, and rioters taken redhanded, or smelling of petroleum, or showing traces of gunpowder, are found guiltv ard shot in batches a few hours later.
The "Daily Express" correspondent reports that one hundered and sixty people have* been shot since 31st July by firing squads of forty infantry in the courtyard of the fortress, in the presence of the garrison.
Arrests continue to be made, owing to some of the condemned accepting a respite in return for giving the authorities the names of revolutionists.
SPAIN'S ARMY. PERSONAL SERVICE, INSISTED ON. MADRID. August 6. The Spanish Government has suspended money payments in lieu of personal uervice in the army.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9563, 9 August 1909, Page 5
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