SIMMERING TROUBLE IN SPAIN

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3115, 20 June 1917, Page 5

SIMMERING TROUBLE IN SPAIN

KING'S PORTRAIT DEFACED

A ROYAL SCAPEGOAT

Madrid, June IS. King Alfonso's portrait in the Manrisfc Club has been defaced. The King is being made the scapegoat for the errors of past Administrations. The country does not desiro a revolution. German interests alone will be served by the present attacks on the Monarchy.—The "Times." GRAVE NATIONAL- CRISIS REVEALED. Madrid, June 18. The Republican Party • has issued a manifesto, which states: "Recent events reveal a grave ■national crisis. The failure of tho hope of reconciling democracy with the present regime demonstrates tho ueccssity of the Left Party maintaining unity. We are desirous of saving Spain.' It is useless to hope that the present regime can amend the evils under which the country suffers every under more seriously, We pledge ourselves to use our positions as deputies to secure that the sovereign will of the nation shall prevail over every other kind of power."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.. VATICAN RECEIVES GRAVE NEWS (Rec. June 19, 8.15 p.m.) London, June 18. The "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at Homo states that the Vatican authorities have received the gravest news from . Spain. Disturbances among the militaryparties have shaken Senor Dato's author- • it}', and conflicts between, tho Gennanophilo section and 'the Interventionists complicate tho situation. A now general strike and fresh crisis are imminent.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. .