CRISIS IN SPAIN
PROPOSALS TO INCREASE MILITARY STRENGTH
LEAD TO CABINET'S RESIGNATION
(ADSTRALIAN-NBW ZEALAND CABMS ASSOCIATION.) '(S-eceived March 11, 8.30 a.m.)
LONDON, 10th March.
The Daily Telegraph's correspondent at Madrid says that the Council of Ministers approved a royal decree authorising the expenditure of eight millions sterling. It was proposed to increase the pay o£ officers, and a large increase in the army was provided forj including one division o{ artillery and two divisions of infantry. The naval bases were also to be strengthened against invasion. The public is astounded, and believes that the decree is unconstitutional.; There has been nothing similar to it in Spain's political history, and it is a heavy blow to democracy. Don Amalio Gimeno, Minister for the Navy, representing the Romanones section, resigned as a protest, precipitating a Cabinet crisis. The Cabinet resigned, and King Alfonso accepted Marquis Garcia Prieto's resignation.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 60, 11 March 1918, Page 7
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146CRISIS IN SPAIN Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 60, 11 March 1918, Page 7
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