RESTORE ALFONSO.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 234, 3 October 1931, Page 12

RESTORE ALFONSO.

NEW SPANISH REVOLT,

RISING NIPPED IN THE BtJD.

CLERICAL ALLEGED.

A clerical and military plot to restore ex-King Alfonso to the throne of was recently crushed before it '. could really get started. The first hint of the .plot, which was to be .led by: disgruntled.army officers, was given in the Cortes by the young Deputy Senor Ausa, the Mayor of Pamplona. A holy war against the Republic was to bo started in ' the Pyrenees and along the Biscay coast. Ex-Ministers of the second .Dictatorship were visited by the Church authorities of Navarre and the Basque country, _au u assured that, animated by religious feeling, the mountain villages would go jt in flames. Money and arms were reao)' Delegates had been sent to stir vv trouble among the big land owners « Andalusia, who were angry over the pr» jected confiscation of their property. The Government concentrated large armed forces at strategic points. 1 contraband in arms was stopped by.™ seizure of the munition factories atJM" and Guernica, and the revolt was mpP in the bud. , Only the regions where clerical influence, is strong responded. ■•^■.° 3Btai \ badge was designed, shaped e watch, and engraved with the Koy _ flag and an "A » indicating AlfMgJ Undoubtedly, the followers ol J Spanish Pretender, Don sons of Carlists have been most *e» lately. Don Jaime himself -attenaea * least one meeting at Guernica. The' Basque and Navarre V*W*JS, gether form a powerful force of bWV religious mountaineers and of indomitable spirit and fired passion for freedom. It is belie/ tt Jf they lack neither arms nor moneythe rising anticipated by Madrid shouta later materialise, guerilla y™g**%L t0 mountains would be most difficult suppress. ' « Senor Bastes, the Civil Governor « Seville, sent a dispatch to the WHJ stating that a state of civil war e»s in the province of Seville, and n Government did not take • **&£& measures-to-euppresfr-it he^otua rra^