SPAIN'S PROBLEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 649, 28 October 1909, Page 7

SPAIN'S PROBLEMS.

« GENERAL WEYLER TO'COMMAND THB CATALANS. , - , JBy Telegraph.-]?rcss Assoeiatton.-Oopyrieat.) . Madrid,.October 26. General Weyler has been appointed to the supremo command in Catalonia, North-cast Spain. , " [Catalonia, and, particularly Barcelona, is Spain's smouldering lire. Tho insurrection in July, the proclamation 'of martial ' law, the couit-martial executions of Francisco Ferrer and Garcia by an unwilling soldiery, and the rrport that something'like 1200, prisoners still | await trial, all tend to throw a lurid light on the stato of the city and pioviucos. It 1 Itus believed a few days ago chat General Weyler, now 71 years of ago, was likely to rcplaco General Marina in the command at Melilla; but now it would Bcem to ■ bo' on Spanish soil, and against Spaniards, that hia seasoned military talent j's to be applied. /In thjs connection the t Barcelona rcvplntionary press will bo recalling the charges ef crnolty made against Weyler in Cuba, charges which ' teiminatcd his'first command in that lost island.] , , f DIFFERENCE IN PARIS MUNICIPAL' COUNCIL. Paris, Ootober 26. The death of Francisco Ferrer, who was exc- ' cutod under the sentence of a Spanish courtmartial on a charge of, directing tho Barcelona . riots, has led to 'n split on the Paris Municipal Council. i , < The Bureau Tocommondcd the. Council to name a street after Ferrer, and to adopt his children. The Council, after the Prefect had intervened in the debate, rejected tho recommendation. - ■ ' < The President and all tie members of tho ' .Bureau thereupon resigned.