The Archive · 1930

Tumultuous Scenes

Madrid, Feb. 16, 'The King has signed' the decree' dissolving the National Assembly' which was Prime de Rivera's substitute for Parliament. During the night workmen erased the inscrip tion on the building "National Assembly" and affixed the form inscription "Chamber of Deputi Tumultuous scenes, however, continue at Madrid and at many other places where Republican and Radical elements are trying to stir up trouble. Collisions between these unruly elements, reinforced by unemployed, and the police are constantly taking place at various points of the capital—Trans Ocean Kuo Min.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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