TROUBLE IN SPAIN.
SENSATION AD EVENTS EXPECTED STRANGE HAPPENINGS AT SEVILLE. • (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Feb. 22. According to reports from the Spanish frontier, General Primo de Rivera, the Spanish Dictator, declares that he is obliged to' render the 'censorship more strict, owing to false reports 'reaching the Foreign Press. Consequently no news except offieia’l messages arc coming from Madrid. The latest arrivals from Hon'd ay e_ are of opinion that in spite of the Dictator ’s efforts to take control of the whole army the situation has become mast grave. Sensational events are expected in the near future. The dissolution of the artillery corps led to strange happenings at Seville, where cadets mutinied. Infantry were ordered to fire on the insurgents, but refused to obey their own officers, whereupon the mutineei’s seized the infantry officers and imprisoned them in the academy, whence they were released by the gendarmerie.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 February 1929, Page 5
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