PLOT FRUSTRATED

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 2, 2 July 1926, Page 7

PLOT FRUSTRATED

AGAINST KING OF SPAIN

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE HIM

ANARCHISTS ARRESTED.

(United Presi Association.—Copyright.) (Reuters Telegram.)

PARIS, Ist July.

Following tho departure to London of the Spanish King and Queen on a private visit, the police revealed a plot to assassinate the King, which was frustrated on Friday by the arrest of two notorious bandits and anarchists, who had come purposely from Argentina. They confessed that they had intended to make an attempt on the King's life. The police had been watching' five individuals who landed at Cherbourg from Argentina at the beginning of May, two of them Spanish subjects-— Ascaso, suspected of the murdisr of the Archbishop of Saragosaa in 1923, and Bonavcntur Duretty—using false names. When Ascaso was arrested he attempted to fire on the police, but he was overpowered. Both were armed with automatics. Ascaso had banknotes for a thousand pesos, payable on an Italian bank. A receipt for a motor-car, three rifles, and 240 cartridges were discovered in his rooms. He explained that the car was to have been used to convey them to the last station outside Paris where the Royal train stopped, and here the attempt would have been made. It is reported that, as a result of the plot, tho Spanish Government has arrested over four hundred military men. , The prisons are crowded with civilians. Melquiade Alvarez, an exPremier,. is included. Count. Romanoes was threatened jwith arrest, and fled.