ENSURING SPAIN'S PEACE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 222, 19 September 1929, Page 28

ENSURING SPAIN'S PEACE.

DE RIVERA'S WAR ON

PLOTTERS

IN INTERESTS OF EXPOSITIONS.'

Primo de Rivera. Spain's dictator, has let it be known that the Seville and Barcelona expositions are not to be* hampered or their success jeopardised by political agitators, and his words have been greeted in Barcelona with profound approval. In Seville he told the Spanish Pre«>3 that malcontents would lose their citizenship and all the rights going with it and that foreigners making public criticism of the Spanish Government would be expelled from Spain. Spaniards living- out of their homeland will be treated as pariahs. De Rivera recently issued an official Note to the Press enlarging on his Seville speech, warning that Spain must keep her house in order for the benefi of the visitors to the expositions. He asked all true patriots to constitute themselves as guardians of the public peace. The dictator declared he is working to put Spain back among the first Powers of the world. Recently the Government fined a daily newspaper in Madrid -30,000 pesetas for publishing a story which it declared had no foundation in fact, in regard to a quarrel in Seville which -was said to have resulted in serious injury to one of those engaged in it. Publication of the paper was suspended until the line was paid.