SPANISH UPHEAVAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16600, 25 July 1917, Page 7

SPANISH UPHEAVAL.

| CRITICAL STAGE REACHED. government ignored. ; Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, .Tnly 23. The Tunes correspondent at Barcelona demit. - of the meeting of Catalonian pn les. Three trusted regiments wer« hurried from Salamanca with a big force of armed police, and watched for the proposed meeting in the Place d'Hotel de , -Meanwhile 71 deputies gathered else- ; here and passed resolutions demanding i the convocation of the Cortes, the re ; notation 0I ( the political stem .- and the abolition of the pro-monarchical censor- ; ' Ihcy appointed three committees. 1 lie civil Governor, discovering that ha Had been outmanoeuvred, despatched a strong force to clear out the " ramp" Assembly, which met his summons to dissolve with a point-blank refusal. T' - Governor, thereupon ordered the soldiers '"'ru ict the deputies and senators sin^lv e correspondent adds that a critical stage has been reached. The Government he says, is losing authority, and the (-atalonian Assembly's manifesto is sold everywhere under the noses of the police. It Ser.or n a to. the Premier, does not re- . sign, revolution must have the last word, : preceded by a general strike.