UNREST IN SPAIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22204, 6 March 1934, Page 9

UNREST IN SPAIN

'• .•'. ‘5 .{ . v •, .. ■ CENERALLiV INCREASING V/; ; ; v- : CABINET UNLIKELY TO LAST ■'. ‘-4-. (Baited Pnm Association) *’• (>7 • Slactrio Telefrmpb—Copy right.) ' ‘ MADRID, March 4. J . Th* Cabinet of the Right and Centre Coalition comprises eight Radicals, one • «#*li from .the Agrarian, Liberal, Democrat, and Progressive Parties, and two Independents. It includes eight former Ministers. The Cabinet can count on SO more votes in the Cortes than its predecessor, but can total only 141 votes oijit of 475. Nevertheless, the fact that SenOr Lerroux apparently accepts the ; . tems dictated by the Agrarians assures bin of -the temporary support of the •' Catholics and other Rightists/ The ' f tertia of the Agrarians include pay for the rural cletgy apd a general amnesty, to include General San Jurjo.. . The situation remains grave. Nobody - believes that : the - Cabinet can last. ' • Senor Lerroux appears,.to be tired and S bewildered. It cannot be long before th# .Radicals will be brushed aside and vi'Tepteeed lijr a strong Right Government . under . .the Catholic leader (Senor Rubles), which, would immediately attempt to establish a corporative State Weed Oki Catholic social principles. . "Thf- - Socialists * remim undecided . whether, to forestall Senor Robles by a coup d’Ctat or whit until Senor Lerroux filla;' Senor RoUee< says:. “My party yrilf only support the Government from : session to session, and will throw it out inurisdlatelw it moves any Bill opposed to- the Catholic demands-” '.The unrest, la-.generally increasing, and' there art fears df a general strike The police are guarding airhuildlngs nsder oonatruotion owing to the; builders’ operatives threatening violence if their wages are not inerodied. r