ABORTIVE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 240, 10 October 1934, Page 7

ABORTIVE.

SPANISH REVOLT.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

Only a Few Isolated Groups Now Give Trouble.

MOROCCAN TROOPS ARRIVE.

(United P.A.-Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

(Received 11 a.m.) MADRID, October 9. The Minister of the Interior, in a statement, declared that the revolution has failed completely. Only Asturias remains to be suppressed, where a few isolated groups are now troubling the troops. He had good authority for saying that the revolutionary leaders had spent £1,000,000 in preparing the revolt. The country is calmer, although clashes are occurring between police anil strikers in several places, notably in Seville, San Sebastian and Pradod-el-Rey, where rioters set fire to the church and town hall. The Mayor was wounded. The mob was later dispersed. Madrid is still in fear of the rebels. Thousands of house-windows are packed with mattresses for protection from stray bullets. Many districts are without gas service. Shops are reopening and more tramcars are running, although still driven by troops. The police have formed a corps of marksmen to deal with spasmodic sniping. The Cortes (Parliament) met this afternoon in a building heavily guarded. No Left Wing deputies were admitted. It is believed that the Government intends to declare the Socialist party illegal. Prime Minister Cheered. Monarchists and Right Wing members cheered Senor Lerroux when he announced that he was taking stern measures against the rebels. He paid a tribute to the troops and police and their loyalty. The Basque minority sat grimly silent. Revolutionaries in the Asturias seized an artillery ammunition arms factory in Trubia, from where they were bombed out by 'planes. Ex-Premier Arrested. Police" have arrested Senor Azana, an ex-Premier of Spain, at Barcelona, where a court-martial has sentenced to death Captain Terras, who participated in the defence of the Generalidad Palace. He will be executed in the morning. Arrests in Madrid include , four Socialist deputies and three ex-deputies. There were exciting scenes in Barcelona at midnight when hundreds of citizens broke the curfew order and rushed the streets to welcome two battalions of the Foreign Legion from Spanish Morocco. They marched through the city with bands playing.

The National Federation of Labour, the most 2'owerful labour organisation in Barcelona, has ordered its members to return to work. At midnight the Cabinet Council sitting at Madrid ordered the workers to return to their posts by mid-day today otherwise they will be dismissed immediately. Strikers found in the streets after mid-day will arrested. Alarming Food Shortage. There is an alarming shortage of provisions. Disease also is threatened through' the filthiness of the streets, which have not been cleaned since the strike was begun at midnight on Wednesday. The Government has launched a great offensive against the insurgents throughout Spain, hoping that ruthlcssness will crush the rebellion. Telephone girls have, remained four days in the central exchange in Madrftl eating and sleeping there and maintaining communication with Paris and London. Scnor Primo de Rivera, Fascist leader, has offered the services of 00,000 followers to the Government. In Barcelona General Batet ordered warships to fire on four wooden huts on a Wharf containing hundreds of revolutionaries. Two of the huts were ignited and the rebels were trapped in them. Thereupon the order was given to allow the remainder to surrender.