UNREST IN SPAIN

Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 January 1932, Page 5

UNREST IN SPAIN

A SERIOUS TURN DISCONTENT WIDESPREAD. Press Association Electric Telegraph Copyright MADRID, Thursday. Aeroplanes have been ordered to assist troops to suppress a rebellion believed to involve 50,000 in the Manrcsa region. It is revealed that the Cabinet expected that the general strike aimed at the overthrow of the Republic. The serious risings throughout Spam are denounced by Senor M. Azana, Minister of War, as revolutionary, lhe Cabinet has been hastily summoned and a warship sent to Barcelona, where the revolution is most serious.

The troops at Manrcsa have been ordered to secure the immediate suppression of tire revolt. Discontent is widespread following the Government 's anti-religious measures. Following Senor Azana’s declaration that sfcertt»<?ss was necessarv to preserve order, the Cortes apjTrOved of Hid measures he had taken. Seiiof A/ana added that 200 armed rebels : Word in Manrcsa, but the situation was less serious than had been originally supposed. “I have telephoned the mayor that they must surrender within 15 minutes or face the consequences,” he said. “I presume they have surrendered. 3 ’ Cabinet’s measures are tantamount to martial law, notably in the Basque Provinces and Navarre where the Monarchists-’ tyranny has infuriated their opponents. The Governor’s powers, equivalent to a dictatorship, arc aimed at the complete suppression of the Monarchists. The Communists are planning a general revolutionary strike, and have circulated a forged manifesto purporting to emanate from the Workers’ Confederation with which they hope to trick the Monarchists into attempting to suppress the strike. The confederation has warned its members that the order is false.

Telegraph and telephone services are dislocated. A well-filled dynamite store at Navascues was bombed, and Communists cut the railway and derailed a train, many casualties being caused.

There is renewed fighting in Barcelona with attacks directed against the Roman Catholic headquarters. Numerous casualties are reported. Meanwhile Monarchist municipal officials in the Basque Provinces are clapping Republicans in gaol. REBELS SURRENDER. IMPORTANT ARRESTS. , (Received Saturday, 11.5 a.m.) MADRID, Friday. It is officially stated that the rebels at Berga, Manresa, Figols and Sallente have surrendered. , The Bilbao banker, Don Jose Urquiao and Count Zubira have been arrested on suspicion of directing and financing of the recent disorders.