SOCIALISTS ARRESTED IN SPAIN
A June 18 Agence France Presse dispatch from Madrid reports that about one hundred persons have been arrested in nation-wide raids by the police in the past few weeks. The news was released by Francots ministry of information,
The arrests, which took place in Barcelona, ‘Sevilla, Valencia, Alicante, Albacete, Murcia and Castellén, were claimed to have affec~ ted three distinct "Marxist" groupings.
The fascist ministry claimed that in Barcelona the United Socialist Party of Catalonia had. been.-broken up by the arrests, Among the prisoners listed by the police were Javier Martin Malo, a student of architecture and secretary general of the party; José Maris Sanahu ja’ Bofill, secretary of propaganda; Emmanuel Justin Castera Conde, a Haition; Oscar Sego, a Peruvian; and Pario Perez Diaz, a Nicaraguan.
Nonofficial sources said that about forty arrests had been made in Barcelona, At Sevilla the police said they had broken up the regional committee of the “Revolutionary Trotskyist Workers Party" and arrested its leader as well as several.members of the political bureau, Two-French girls arrested in Barcelona were alleged by tho polite.to belong .to the organization. They were listed as Mmes Nicole Boyer and Marie Gabrielle Hildembrant. [See World Outlook June 19 for a conflicting report,
Finally, the regional committee of the "spanish. Communist Party of the Levant" was likewise broken up, according to the police,
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