DEATH TO ROYALTY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16705, 24 July 1928, Page 7

DEATH TO ROYALTY

ANARCHIST CONSPIRACY MORE ARRESTS IN SPAIN (United Service.; LOIN DON, July 23. The Daily Mail's Toulouse correspondent reports that a Spaniard and three Frenchmen were arrested on the FrancoSpanish frontier, following the discovery of.a widespread plot to assassinate King Alfonso, when, with President Doumergue, he inaugurates the new Pyrenees tunnel connecting the FrancoSpanish railways. Two of (he suspects were in possession of secret instructions from the Spanish Anarchist Committee at Barcelona, ordering them to get their comrades ready and fit them out for a.n imminent expedition, and find arms at a point indicated across the frontier. The arrested men were lodged in gaol at the ancient fbrtified city of Carcassone, which M. Doumergue visited on Sunday in connection with the celebration of its two thousandth anniversary. The plot is believed to be connected with the outbreaks of vast forest fires inside the French frontier, which were intended to be used as a screen. THE PORTUGUESE PLOT REVOLUTION CRUSHED (United Service.) LONDON, July 25. A censored and delayed message from Lisbon,; states' the::attempted revolution Was crushed, and the 'Government is maintaining order throughout the country.' ,> ' '• . ' : ■ An official pommunique declares that officers of the Seventh Regiment of Chasseurs stationed at. Castello barracks mutinied on Friday and tried to involve the Lisbon garrison. Government troops besieged the barracks all night and began an. offeiisiye in the morning supported by. artillery. The; rebels quickly surrendered, losing seven killed and thirty wounded.--Precautions taken by the Government in other cities prevented similar outbreaks.

The mutiny. i>s 'described as political in character, directed against the Government, but it lacked the mora! atmosphere, for. success.