CRISIS IN SPAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 39, 16 February 1931, Page 9

CRISIS IN SPAIN

CABINET RESIGNS

OPPOSITION TO ALFONSO

TALK OF ABDICATION

United Press Association—By Elcotric Tele- ! graph—Copyright. MADEID, 14th February. : Cabinet^ has resigned, and King Alfonso is consulting political lcadors with a view to the formation of a new Ministry, probably of a national character. Intense excitement prevails, and it is felt that the next few hours will dceido Spain's future. Opposition to King Alfonso is daily i strengthening, helped by tho seizure of newspapers, the closing of the principal auditorium, and tho imprisonment of those whose comments indict the Government. One section of the Press considers that party divisions will render civilian government impossible, and demands the continuance of the dictatorship. The possibility of King Alfonso's abdication is officially denied. QUEEN HUREIES BACK. Queen Ena, who spent a recent sojourn in England beside the sick bed of her mother, Princess Beatrice, is I hastening to Madrid in order to be by her husband's side. j A guardedly-worded earlier message i from Madrid to London mentions great excitement as a result of mysterious | activities on the part of Government I and other political leaders. ] It was stated that General Berenguer ] intended to resign immediately. This | | was associated with a rumour that tho King had acceded to the popular demand for a convocation of a constituent assembly. Such an assembly would re-view the whole constitutional situation, and might even ask King Alfonso to abdicate. t According to another rumour, a "touii of generals met at Saragosso, ostensibly to see a German film, but actually to engineer another dictatorship Whether or not this is true, the fact remains that tho Ministry of War last night was the centre of unusual activity. ____________