UNREST IN SPAIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 8 September 1926, Page 5

UNREST IN SPAIN.

GRAVE SITUATION. ; OFFICIAL NEWS ’CONTRADICTED. Press Association- Electric Telegraph-Copyright. K LONDON; Tuesday.

Contrary to official news, despatches from the -Eraneo-Spanish frontier last night reported the situation in Spain to be still grave; Ofl DEVELOPMENTS EXPECTED. :! ' LONDON, Tuesday,. Thetjigily News, in a long account of the (crisis, says: “Do Rivera told Alfonso ij was essential that the corps of artillery officers should be dissolved, and its leaders arrested, unless there was tb be anarchy throughout the army. . “Alfonso refused, whereupon De Rivera, threatening to resign, produced a series of reports from the political police, showing that the extreme, pa”; ties ; o t‘, RepukUcaiis,, Cpin-, niuuists and Catalan, were,; •fully ..prepared ,Jsor, .immediate.w aefiop. . He dec fared/tfcjl at jr; .whether ? bis policy;; was irjghUbr wrong,' the. fall: of the. flic-c tutorship would place not onlywthe pub-'i lie Security, but the throne' itself Cha.'

danger. i,> t- '■••“V'"' “ Alftnisd' reluctriitfly ’signed *trd‘decree for ni;irtial,4aw gnd the dissolution of tlie.;c<jpi}s, bp|A refused absolutely 'to arrest seven highly-placed leaders,.;.;

■ “The .Ring’s.. .action- took, the .opposi? tionists by surprise. They were relying upon the known differences (between Alfonso -and the Dictator. Hence '(the revolutionary plaiis miscarried. A general rising in Barcelona was averted by midnight arrests. ‘ * Important developments are expected following to-day’s council.”