CATALONIAN PLOT.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19144, 29 October 1927, Page 15

CATALONIAN PLOT.

FRUSTRATED BY POLICE. (AUSTRALIAN AND 5»-Z- CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received October 28th, 7.15 p.m.) PARIS, October 27. French police have confirmed reports that Catalans have organised raids in Spain similar to the abortive attempt in November, 1926. Contingents of gendarmerie have been posted on the East Pyrcnean frontier, and other precautions taken in readiness for eventualities. In November of last year French police arrested between 150 and 200 revolutionaries en route to Spain. Meetings had been held in Paris under the leadership of three Spaniards. The conspirators' make-up made them resemble tourists. Their object was to precipitate a revolutionary movement in. Catalonia. PROMPT ACTION BY FRANCE.

(australiah and x.z cabls associatiok.) (Received October 28th, 10.5 p.m.) PAEIS, October 27. A plot to kidnap King Alfonso, hatched in France, was discovered and frustrated through prompt action by the French Government. Catalonian Separatists planned to concentrate where King Alfonso was opening a waterworks, seize him and his suite, and proclaim a Catalonian .Republic. The conspirators found the' frontier passes guarded. A number of. them were arrested.

KING AND QUEEN TO HAVE

BEEN SEIZED. (AtTSTBALIASf' AXD Jf.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATIOK.) (Received October 28th, 8.20 p.m.) LONDON, October 27. The Paris correspondent of the "Daily News" says the joint French and Spanish frontier precautions are believed to have frustrated the plot to secure the independence of Catalonia. It is alleged that the plot was hatched in France, and that vast stores of arms and munitions were smuggled into the province, which the King and Queen of Spain are at present visiting. Thousands of patriots are reported to have been ready to join in a large scale rising, which was timed to follow a movement by Spanish malcontents from France, including the seizure of the King and Queen, whose personal guard have been-strengthened.