IS IT REVOLUTION ?

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1238, 21 September 1911, Page 5

IS IT REVOLUTION ?

RIOTS IN SPAIN. GENERAL STRIKE DECLARED. CIVIL RIGHTS ABROGATED. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright Madrid, September 19. King Alfonso has signed a deciee suspending the constitutional guarantees throughout' Spain. Tho General Labour Union has decided on a general strike in Spain. The campaign in Morocco has left only seventy thousand troops available for maintenance of order.

Tho rioters at Valencia control the town. They have stopped traffic and also work at the dockyards and factories.

Rioters at Cullera (twenty-ono miles south-east of Valencia) invaded tho Mayor's residence, murdered the judge, ami severely injured the judge's clerk and another official.

Tho Civil Guard at Saragossa charged the mob: Firing on both sides followed. One person was killed and five wounded.

WIDESPREAD DISORDERS.

TROOPS FIRE ON STRIKERS.

PLOT TO KILL WEYLER. (Rec. September 20, 10.20 p.m.)

Madrid, September 20. The mob at Bilbao attacked the troops escorting tho arrested leaders. Tho troops fired, injuring many, and two of tho strikers were also sabred.

Thirteen of the ringleaders have been arrested as the result of a domiciliary visit to the Labour Exchange headquarters at Saragossa. The Anarchist president of tho Labour Federation was also arrested.

The Prime Minister, Senor Canalejas, asserts that the suspension of the constitutional guarantees is necessary, owing to the anarchial and revolutionary character of _ fclie strikes. All those implicated could not be arrested, because many had fled to France and Al-

The Government, tho Premier declared, possessed knowledge of a plot to assassinate General Weyler, Captain-General at Barcelona.

All meetings have been prohibited, and inciters to violence are being punished.

Tho revolutionists for a time practically held tho Alcira town' hall. Two buildings were burnt, a bridge blown up, and tho railway cut.

Tho troops restored order. An active strike campaign is being conducted in the Andalusian collieries.

A goods train has been derailed at Seville.

The labour unions at Valencia protest against the Anarchist action, and declare that they struck in sympathy with the Bilbao men, and without revolutionary intent. Thoy state that they are willing to resume.

General Valeriano Vfeyler, Marquis of Tenoriil'e, is over seventy years of age. Ho was recalled from the command of the war in Cuba on account of charges of extreme cruelty niado against him, but was sent there again to succeed Marshal Campos as captain-general of the Spanish forces in January, 1596. In October, 1597, he was succeeded by Blanco. He has fought against the Moors before, and also served in tho Carlist war. The Ministry of War lias been allotted to him in two Spanish .Cabinets, and ho has many decorations.