SPANISH REVOLUTION

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 99, 22 January 1924, Page 7

SPANISH REVOLUTION

WELCOMED BY NATION AND APPROVED BY KING ALFONSO RESULT OF POLITICAL . ABUSES The King of Spain related to an interviewer how he had opposed previous attempts at re* volution and he had rpproved of the movement headed by General df Rivera only when it was clear that the nation welcomed the endeavour "to reform the administration, In which grave political abuses had grown up. By Telegraph—Press Association. —Ooptbight. London, January 20. Mr. Ward Price, special correspondent of the “Daily Mail,” who is investigating the results of General de Rivera’s dictatorship in Spain, ‘ has been granted an interview with King Alfonso, who related how he had op* posed previous attempts at revolution, as he had held that such action was beneficial onlyrwheu a change was acceptable to the people. He was not acquainted with General de Rivera’s intentions, and he spent the night at the telephone finding out Low the country would receive the attempt. He approved it only when it was«?lear that the nation welcomed an endeavour to reform the administration, in which grave political abuses had grown up, including persecution of their opponents by the party in power. Mr. Price, when describing the conditions prior to the revolution, said that the country was a Golconda of graft. Ministers added the names of their friends to a list of dead-heads. One Prime Minister’s cook was a salaried education official; another statesman’s five-year-old daughter wa s rated as a typist and drew a salary; and a journalist appended in the War Office accounts as two mules, whose fodder allowance ho drew monthly.—Sydney “Sun” Cable.