UPHEAVAL IN SPAIN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 32, 22 September 1911, Page 5

UPHEAVAL IN SPAIN.

WHOLESALE ARRESTS

fßy Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) fUnited Press Association.) Madrid, September 21.

The situation in the provinces is quieter. There is a complete stoppage at Forrol, impeding the public services. Food is scarce.

A detachment of the Army Corps is engaged baking bread. A secret session of the Workingmen’s Association at Gyon decided on a general strike. Those arrested in Madrid include Caballero, Councillor-General, and vice-president of the General Labour Union. A quantity of arms was seized.

All important buildings, including tho residence of the Papal Nunico, are guarded. Troops arc kept in the barracks, whilst civic guards occupy the strategic points of the city, in anticipation of a general strike to-day. The Government is disposed to recognise the strike if legally conducted, and does not impede the public service. Otherwise stern measures will bo taken, and tho troops ordered to use arms on the slightest sign of revolt. Sonor Canalojas, Premier, annbi'nced that lie would end once for all the throats of a revolution. Strict censorship is imposed on telegrams. Throe hundred arrests have been effected in Madrid, and 158 in Barcelona. Tho revolutionaries at Caro and Agonto re-enacted the Arcila scenes. The military restored order.