The Archive · 1931

Spain Settling Down

Madrid, Sept. 7.

After days of disorder, durin; which servians riots have' occur in several centres, especially Barcelona, the situation in Spain began' to settle down to-day.

Minor disorders occurred, but these were regarded merely as the expiring agonies of a. subversive Communist movement strangled in its: infancy by the prompt action of the local authorities, The chief incidents to-day took place in the ancient city of Orvieto, in" the province of Perugia, where rioting eke out on two Separate occa sions. The first outbreak was quekly suppressed by the police, who took the ringleaders into custody, The second outbreak was Ukowise suppressed and the rioters dispersed. After that conditions in the city became normal, except for the activities of a batch of 19 Communists, whose revolutionary ardour is now being cooled in the. Tocal gaol, An attempt by Communist agitators to foment a general strike in Bilbao, the principal port in the north of Spain, proved a complet failure owing to the apathy of the workers, who had well in mind the AM" effects of the strike in Barcelona, with its attendant horrors

Raut of ger det fighting and broken heads,

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