CATALONIAN PLOT.
CONSPIRATORS CROSS BORDER. (IT CABLE —PBI3S ASSOCIATION COriRIGHT). ("AHOUS.") (Received October oOth, 0.-3 p.m.) PARIS, October 29th. The ''Echo de Paris" states that the Ontalonian conspirators succeeded in crossing the Franco-Spanish border. The novelist, Vicente Blasco Ibanez, is one of the ring-leaders. There is the greatest unrest in the district. The plot is financed by Central America and Soviet Russia. The presence of Ibanez is considered to justify extraordinary precautions being taken. [A plot to kidnap King Alfonso, hatched in France, was discovered and frustrated through prompt aetion by the French Government. Catalan Separatists planned to concentrate where King Alfonso was opening a water-. works, seize him and his suite, and proclaim a Catalonian Republic. The conspirators found the frontier passes guarded. A number of them were arrested. 1
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19145, 31 October 1927, Page 11
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