SPANISH PLOT

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 6 November 1926, Page 5

SPANISH PLOT

MANY ARRESTS MADE.

CONSPIRATORS’ PREPARATIONS ARMS AND EQUIPMENT. BY CABLE--PBESS ASSOCIATION —COPYBIGHT MADRID, Nov. 4. The Government statement in reference to the Perpignan arrests says that the police have been aware for a fortnight that a, plot was brewing with the sole object of disturbing public order in Spain. . , . ... The conspirators were in. touch with certain elements in Spain among whom some arrests are now being made. The statement concludes: “Once again feeble minorities, which protest against the present regime, have tailed, through their Jack ot .strength ana a suitable atmosphere, to disturb the public order. The country can con tinue working tranquilly, confident m the zeal and devotion not only of its police .and detective force, but also oi the French Government, which has taken steps to ensure that the tolerant hospitality it extends t<> political refugees shall not be abused by conspirators trying to stir up trouble in a country of which it is, the sincere friend. ’ ’ PARIS, Nov. -1. Colonel Maeea, the organiser and leader of the Perpignan , conspirators, was arrested with his staff tab Prats tie Mollo, in the Eastern Pyrenees, and taken to Perpignan. It is generally accepted that the conspirators object was to precipitate an insurrectionary mov'enient in Catalonia. The police arrested at various points between 150 and 200 revolutionaries ten route to Spain. The arrests followed the discovery in September that Italian and Spanish rdotters were planning a blow to coincide with the Fascist March in Rome. They hadj.he.ld meetings at the Anarchist Union .rooms in Paris under the leadership of Francisco Maeea, Jose Oarrio and Ramon Allis ter, three Spaniards. Arms were purchased and motored to the Spanish frontier, where they were stored in the mountains, but the arrests forestalled rebel action. One band received at Toulouse, military clothing, equipment, maps, field telephones, la machine gun sand instructions for mountain oampainging. The conspirators’ make up resembled tourists Another group arrested' near Perpignan were fully supplied with bandages, medicaments and bombs.