SPANISH REVOLT.
Prisoners Receive Heavy Sentences. KING TO INTERVENE. (Receiyed 12 Noon.) MADRID, March 18. The court martial at Huesca on 81 officers and men involved in the Jaca rising has sentenced Captain Sedile to death and four others to imprisonment for life. A tabulated list of the court martial verdicts shows that the sentences on 26 officers total 412 years. The chief penalties are imposed on two lieutenants, who were given life terms; one ensign, 30 years; seven lieutenants, '20 to .10 years each; twelve others, three years downwards. In response to a telephone message from Madrid Socialists, King Alfonso has promised to return to Spain immediately to commute the death sentence on Captain Sedile.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 66, 19 March 1931, Page 7
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