SPANISH UNREST.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 47, 26 January 1932, Page 7

SPANISH UNREST.

GENERAL STRIKE CANCELLED. PRECAUTIONS BY AUTHORITIES. Received January 26, 11.25 a.m. MADRID, Jan. 25. Owing to the determination of the authorities to suppress the demonstrations the anarchists cancelled the general strike which had been fixed to take place throughout the country today. There has been a minor outbreak at Seville. The trams and taxis are idle. The precautions taken include machine guns in the streets and aeroplanes circling overhead. Communists attacked the Barcelona University, but the students effectively repelled them. . The Under-Secretary for the Interior announces that calm prevails. The authorities will continue the precautions to-morrow.

CHURCH AND STATE. (Times Cable.) LONDON, Jan. The Times’s correspondent at Vadrid says that the decree dissolving the Jesuit Order in Spain involves 80 communities and 3060 members. The decree, which will become effective on February 3, forbids community life, and confiscates property for charitable and teaching purposes. POPE’S STATEMENT. ROME, Jan. 24. “It is a veritable massacre,” said the Pope, referring to the dissolution of the Spanish Jesuits. “However, there is something supremely beautiful and glorious in these sad happenings. The Jesuits can rejoice in the same way as the Apostles rejoiced as being held worthy to suffer in the name of Jesus. It is consoling for them to think that they will now he called not only confessors, but also martyrs.!’