CIVIL WAR HINT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 243, 15 October 1931, Page 7

CIVIL WAR HINT.

STATE RELIGION. CRISIS IN SPAIN. * Cabinet Resigns on Decision to Dissolve Jesuit Order. CHURCH and state separate. (United P.A.-Electrie Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 11.30 a.m.) MADRID, October 14. While youths were demonstrating outside aiid shouting, "Down with the clergy," the Cortes Parliament, by 287 votes to 45, approved of the separation of Church and State.

The Cortes later decided to ,•dissolve the. Jesuit Order and hand over its properties to charitable institutions. Senor.. jladariaga, a Catholic deputy from the Basque country, declared that an array would be needed to expel the Jesuits'from the north. Consequent on the decision of Parliament to expel the Jesuits and to adopt other anti-clerical measures. Cabinet lias resigned, creating a first-class, crisis over the'question of the State religion. The War Minister, Senor Manuel Azana, is forming a new Cabinet. AntiJesuit'demonstrations are proceeding in the., streets. While religious orders, rvhose activities" arc considered to endanger the State are to be disbanded, others will be submitted to severe Regulation. The police fired on Granada strikers Who had overturned and burned tramcars and motor lorries. Several were rounded.

STORMY SCENES.

NEW CABINET FORMED

(Received 2 p.m.) MADRID, October >14. The' new Cabinet is now complete. Senor -Azana replaces Senor Zamora as Prime Minister, Senor Qiiiraga, ex-Min-ister : of Marine,, replaces Senor Maura, Minister of the Interior, and Seno.r Giralt i »ucceeds Senor Quiraga. ' Stormy scenes'marked the Cortes debate leading to the filial separation of Churchvand State. A new article in-the Constitution provides for the dissolution of religious bodies whose activities are a menace to the. State, prohibits religious orders" embarking on commercial undertakings, requiring an annual state- ' merit df their financial dealings. Tlic pro-Church party - declares that Spain is next to Russia and Mexico for . ,anti-religious spirit, and predicts the decision will lead to civil war. • The adoption ofr the article led to' the resignation of.the Prime Minister, Senor Zamora.