THE TROUBLE IN SPAIN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2573, 6 August 1909, Page 5

THE TROUBLE IN SPAIN.

THE FIGHTING AT BARCELONA.

REVOLTING EXCESSES OF THE REBELS.

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(Received August 5, 9.55. p.m.) LONDON, August 5.

Reuter’s and other correspondents report fierce fighting on July 25th between the police and revolutionists outside Barcelona. The Marist monastery offored a stout resistance, and three monks were shot. The mob destroyed five churches and convents in a few hours.

During the night Barcelona was given over to the horrors of a revolution. There was no gas nor electric light in the streets. A 'gang of incendiaries, including women, carrying torches, bundles of straw and paper, hatchets, and petroleum, rushed from church to church, and from convent to convent Next afternoon they sacked a number of goldsmiths’ shops. The fathers and pupils 1 of the Jesuit monastery at.Saria repelled the rioters for three days by steady rifle fire, until artillery relieved them. After burning the convent of San Jeronimo, the revolutionists disinterred corpses and carried them in procession, tied ropes to the embalmed bodies of nuns and dragged them through the streets.

There are now 25,000 soldiers in Barcelona. •