New-York tribune., 1909-07-28
BARCELONA In REVOLT
MANY KILLED IN CITY.
4nh-War Riots Continue-Tracks
Torn Up-Wires Broken.

Barcelona July 27-Barcelona is under mar
tial law. Serious disorders have occurred foilow-
ing the declaration Of general strike yesterday
in protest against the military operations in
Morocco and the dispatch TO that country Of large
!bodies of troops A captain. three gendarmes and
EIGHT strikers have been killed and score Of per
sons wounded Rioting continues
Violent meetings have been held in the last few
aavz and the general strike followed. The strikers
invaded the factories and forced the men TO stop
work There has been much fighting in the streets
and practically all communications have been de-
stroved The food supplies have been cut of, re-
shifting in great hardship and suffering especially
among the poor. The prices Of the necessaries Of
life are almost prohibitive. Hundreds OF arrests
shaxe been made Most Of the shops are closed
The strikers cheer the soldiers. but have attacked
the police Of Barcelona and suburbs Several seri-
GUS engagements have occurred between the police
and the rioters, and the former have not hesitated
TO use their pistols freely. AS a result many in
noeent pedestrians have been shot, as well as
sioters.
an commercial activities are Frustrated and tele
graph. traraway and railroad service. as well as
that of csb carriage service. has almost ceased
Telegraph poles have been cut down and tracks
torn Up There is great uneasness here and fear of
much more serious disorders. Trouble is also re-
ported from the interior towns
Madrid. July 7-The latest report from the com
.nander Of the troops Barcelona says that fierce
encounters between the troops and the rnohs are
occurring constantly in the streets Of the city At
Pueblo Nuevo the mobs firing indiscriminately
from the shelter of barricades. The outbreaks are
spreading rapidly and the police unable to pro
teet the property The arrival of reinforcements
has been greatly delayed by the cutting OF rail-
roads
An official announcement justfyng state Of
siege at Barcelona, Tara gona and Corona has been
issued. II says that grave outbreaks have oc-
Cured adding that at Barcelona after the decara-
general strike in the provinces. barricades
were erected the streets and organized assaults
general the police and troops being frequently
forced 70 FIRE
At Tarragona the rioters burned the trains, set
fire TO the Tarragona bridge and blew up with
dynamite another bridge on the Tarragona Rail-
iroad
The note says that the strikers attacked the
police station at Pueblo Nuevo and that the gen
darrnes defended II with rifles. The mob burned St
PsuIs Church ar St Antoine and wrecked the
gparochial schools.
The official figures of yesterdays fighting at Bar
ceiona three rioters killed and forty-ve wound
'ed and tventy-three police wounded.
Cerbere France July 27.-Travellers report the
situation Barcelona grave. The Civil Governor
when ordered 10 proclaim martial law resigned his
Office A regiment of infantry has arrived in the
city from Tarragona TO reinforce the garrison
Rioting resumed the Rambla, the main
street OF the city, before dark yesterday, and two
streetcars were overturned. a dozen persons have
been killed ny the police while repressing the riot
sng.
train which arrived at the frontier this evening
from Barcelona, escorted by soldiers was attacked
and stoned Figueras. tWenty-one miles northeast
Of Corona where the rails have been relaid- The
troops fired into the attacking party. wounding
several. The railroads have been cut between
Corona and Barcelona.
Hendaye- July 27--Hundreds OF young Spanish
crossing the frontier into France They
cay they deserting because the war against the
Riff tribes is solely in the interest of Spanish min
ing speculatcrs.