GRAVE UNREST IN SPAIN

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 19093, 27 January 1932, Page 7

GRAVE UNREST IN SPAIN

RED ACTIVITIES IN PROVINCES COMMUNISTS ATTACK IN ALCORISA. United Pres 6 Association—Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received January 26, 7.30 p.m.) BARCELONA, January 25. Troops have been hurriedly ordered to Alcorisa, near Saragossa, where the revolutionaries proclaimed a Communist Government, and seired the municipal funds and railway and the dynamite stores. “RED” REVOLUTION FAILS. CLAIMS OF MADRID GOVERNMENT. United P-553 Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received January 20, 7.30 p.m.) MADRID. January 26. The Red revolution scheduled for January 25 was a failure, though there were outbreaks in several small towns, and many arrests. SUPPRESSION OF JESUITS. EXPECTED TO LEAVE COUNTRY. United Press Association- By Electric Telegraph— Copyright (Received January 23, 7.30 p.m.) MADRID, January 26. The Jesuits had little opportunity to protest against their suppression of the Order with their chief organ "El Debate” suspended. It is believed they will leave the country quietly. Educationists are wondering how to replace the eminent teachers specialising in mathematics, physics and philosophy. GENERAL STRIKE THREAT. GOVERNMENT'S PRECAUTIONS EFFECTIVE. United Press Association -By Electric Telegraph—Copyright MADRID, January 25. Owing to the authorities’ determination to suppress demonstrations, the Anarchists have cancelled the general strike, which had been fixed to take place throughout the country to-day. There is a minor outbreak at Seville. Trams and taxis arc idle. The precautions include machine guns in the streets, ancl aeroplanes circling overhead. The Communists attacked the Barcelona University, but the students effectively repelled them. The Under-Secretary for the Interior announces that calm prevails. The authorities will continue the precautions to-morrow. CLASH WITH VATICAN. REPUBLICAN POLICY HOTLY DENOUNCED. The Madrid correspondent of the “Times” reported recently that the Roman Catholic newspapers say the expulsion of the Jesuits is ridiculous and should not be allowed. The decision against education they call a barbarous crime against culture. The Cortes passed a clause in the Constitution permitting liberty of conscience and the free practice of religion, but suppressing the Holy Week ceremonies at Seville and the Pillar Week at Saragossa, which are famous throughout the Roman Catholic world. The new Spanish Cabinet issued a decree forbidding religious orders to abandon the work of teaching under penalty of the forfeiture of their property. At the same time the Cabinet deleted from the Budget the teaching and cultural grant to the Church. The possibility of a rupture between the Vatican and Spain, if further measures against the Church are adopted, is being discussed in authoritative quarters in Rome. The Vatican is shocked at the unexpected passage of the article in the Constitution permitting the dissolution of religious bodies and the confiscation of their property. A subsequent message from Madrid stated that the Papal Nuncio, Monsignor Tedeschini who had an interview with the Premier (Senor Azana), as a result of which it is hoped that the relations between the Church and the State may be satisfactorily solved, remarked: “The Cfiurch may be wounded, but it is never hostile.”