| Show SPAIN UNDER MARTIAL RULE Copyright 1936 by Associated J Press ress MADRID D Feb 21 21 Martial Martial law Jaw spread through Spain tod today y against revived radical rioting in lc least t eight p persons were killed and churches and rightist centers raided and nd tho the red flag of communism was raised in isolated points Tho The new lett republican left government government govern ment of Premier Manuel Azana Azan which came into power after afler the I leftist victory in Sundays Sunday's parliamentary parliamentary parlia parlia- elections took immediate measures to attempt to halt the c disorders celebration and and demon demon- I S I Toll Rais Raised d to 27 21 Civil guards kui killed d two extremist rioters and nd wounded ten more at Bollullos Del Condado Huelva province province pray pray- ince raising the total of election le U n dead to to- 27 persons Civil guards and troops were active ac ac- ac- ac live tive everywhere attempting to re restore restore restore re- re store order while hundreds of political po pa- l l pris prisoners ners wera were released from Jails The killings at Bollullos Del Condado Condado Condado Con- Con dado were were precipitated d by a crowd of of extremists who attacked conservatives conservatives con con- of the village gc The Tho civil gu guards Spain's semi semi- military constabulary tried to break breakup up the fight but cut failing shot a volley into the tho extremist ranks One of the men wounded in last nights night's riot in Barcelona di died today Guards Dispatched One hundred guards armed with machine guns were dispatched to the town of in the far southwestern southwestern south south- western province of where communists proclaimed a n. soviet state and raised their red flag Jag Police Pollee clashed with another group of demonstrators displaying the red flag in Hoyo Pinares Avila provInce province pray pray- ince and one woman was killed there The government decided to ask President Niceto Alcala Zamora's signature to a a. decree authorizing the tho cabinet to submit to the permanent permanent perma perma- nent committee the question of an an immediate amnesty for alt all political prisoners The Tho entire nation was under understate a state of alarm putting the p police Uce forces on guard martial law extended extended ex ex- tended to Alicante Cordoba Murcia Valencia and Zaragoza provinces and a declaration of ot general martial martial mar mar- law Jaw appeared imminent Early Meeting In view of the mounting demonstrations demonstrations demon demon- by the leftists reluctant to wait walt until the amnesty could be debated by the parliament the government government government gov gov- arranged for an early meeting of the tho parliamentary commission commission com com- corn com mission on the question Informed sources said a decree of general amnesty for all aU political prisoners prisoners many many of them held since the tho socialist revolution of October 1934 probably 1934 probably would be bo drafted to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow to- to morrow and signed Saturday to become become become be be- come effective upon publication Inthe in inthe inthe the official gazette Monday Prison cells were emptying aready already already al al- a- a ready under a government order granting provisional liberty to from to persons against whom charges had not yet been preferred and those convicted but not yet sentenced Raid Church Fresh reports reports' from Palma DeRio De Del DelRio Rio in the southern southe n Cordoba ba province province ince inc said extremists burned furniture furniture furniture furni furni- ture in the popular headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters and raided a church where they burned images The rioters proceeded then to a convent anc and forced the nuns to take ake refuge in private houses At Carmona in tho province of Seville between Cordoba and Hueva Huelva Huel- Huel va demonstrators attempted to burn a church but were driven off by a lone priest Coruna rioters attempted to burn the Santa Catalina church Several newspaper offices became the targets of the tho demonstrators In Murcia center of the southeastern southeast southeast- ern era province of the same name rioters raided the newspaper Laver Laver- dad burning furniture and clashed with guards in front of ot the offices of the newspaper El Levant Agrario In Alcoy All Alicante canto province north of Murcia on the east coast rioters partly burned the Santa Maria church and the building of the rightist newspaper Le Gac Gaceta ta |
