KING BITTERLY ATTACKED

Taranaki Daily News, 29 April 1930, Page 9

KING BITTERLY ATTACKED

GREATER UNREST IN SPAIN

ALFONSO’S “SUICIDAL FOLLY’’

CORONATION OATH BROKEN

THREATS AGAINST CROWN

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.

Rec. 8.5 p.m.

London, April 28.

Renewed attacks on King Alfonso and rioting in Barcelona, where 30 were injured in a demonstration following the release of a Catalan agitator, indicate increased unrest threatening the security of the crown, reports the Madrid correspondent of the Daily News. The stormiest gathering since the fall of the dictatorship was.at the Comedia Theatre when Senor Alvarez, Reformist ex-Minister and ex-chairman, of the Chamber of Deputies, amid tremendous applause vehemently criticised King Alfonso for complicity in General Primo de Rivera’s coup d’etat. Scnor Alvarez declared; “The English doctrine that the king could do no wrong applies to the British monarch who respects the Constitution, not to Alfonso, who in an hour of suicidal folly and ambition for power has trampled it underfoot, breaking his coronation oath and throwing overboard the safeguards of his crown.”