SPANISH CRISIS STILL GRAVE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3145, 25 July 1917, Page 5

SPANISH CRISIS STILL GRAVE

GOVERNMENT'S AUTHORITY WEAKENING REVOLUTION A REAL POSSIBILITY (H-ec..July 24-, 10.30 p.m.) Barcelona, July 23. Details of llio meeting of tho Cutulonian deputies reveal the fact, sayd the "Times" correspondent, that throe trusted regiments were hurried from Salamanca with a big force of armed police, and watched the proposed meetiug-place at Hie Hotel do Ville. Meanwhile 71 deputies gathered elsewhere and passed a resolution demanding; tho convocation of the Cortes, the renovation of tho iiolitical system, and tho abolition, of tho promonarchical censorship, and appointed three committees. The Civil Governor, discovering that lie had been outmanoeuvred, dispatched a strong force to clear out the "rump" assembly, which met the summons to dissolve with a point-blank "No!" The Governor therefore ordered the soldiers to cvict tho deputies and senators singly. The correspondent adds: "A critical stags lias been reached. The Government is losing its authority. The Assembly's manifesto has been sold everywhere under the nose of the notice. If Sonor Dato (tho Premier) does not resign a revolution must have the last word, preceded by a .general strike."—The "Times."