PLOTTERS IN SPAIN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 174, 26 July 1933, Page 7

PLOTTERS IN SPAIN

TIMELY DISCOVERY WHOLESALE ARRESTS MADE INTENSE POLICE ACTIVITY PREMATURE BOMB EXPLOSION .By Telegraph —Press Association — CopyrifMl Received Julv 25, 6.10 p.m. » MADRID, July 25. 1 Five hundred arrests, including a. ) ' number of women, have been made throughout Spain. These followed the discovery of a widespread anti-Govcru-meat plot. Intense police activity has ; foiled the plan, which was to cause a . rising by Fascists, Monarchists, Syndi- : valists, and Anarchists. The police, throughout Monday, j raided the residences of suspects, inI eluding lawyers, journalists, students, t 1 priests and politicians. - Two priests were arrested at Gran- . ■ ada. They were saying Mass when the > police arrived, but were allowed to con- . jtinue tho celebration, after which they . > surrendered. | The .unrest has been prevalent in the . i south, particularly in Seville, for some i days. Communists meetings have been . banned and Syndicalist and Labour or- ? ; ganisations closed in several other | cities. i A premature bomb explosion near . j Cadiz on Sunday night is believed to I have aroused the suspicions of the . I authorities. Sixty-throe of 117 arrested 1 at Madrid w*ero immediately taken to j the penal settlement of Ocana. j It is believed that Anarchists had , prepared a violent movement as a protest against the severe law dealing with public order, which Parliament is now debating. Tho Monarchists doubtless took advantage of tho opportunity to attempt the overhrow of tho Republic. The trial has begun at Barcelona of 42 Communists charged with participation at Tarassa in a revolutionary movement 18 months ago. The prosecution is demanding life sentences. 1 • The authorities have armed the a police in the principal towns with. • muskets, apparently fearing an outk’ break when the sentences for the e August revolutions are notified to-day e —namely. General Perez. 22 years’ 1 gaol; Cavalcanti, 10 years’; four other ' officers 20 years’; ten others shorter * periods. Twelve wore liberated. n —■' ■