SITUATION IN SPAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 60, 8 September 1926, Page 9

SITUATION IN SPAIN

SAID TO BE STILL GRAVE

KING AND THE DICTATOR

HOW REVOLUTIONARY PLANS WENT AMISS.

(United Press Association. —Copyright.) LONDON, 7tb September. Contrary to official news, dispatches from tho Franco-Spanish frontier last night reported that tho situation in Spain was still grave.

Tho "Daily Express,' in a lengthy account of tho crisis, says: "General Do Rivera told King Alfonso that it was essential that the corps of artillery oflicers should bo dissolved and the leaders arrested, unless there was to be anarchy throughout the army. King Alfonso refused to order the dissolution, whereupon General De Bivera, threatening to resign, produced a series of reports from the political police showing that extreme parties of Republicans, Anarchists, Communists, and Catalan Separatists, were fully prepared for immediate action. He declared that, whether his policy was right or wrong, the fall of the Directorate would place not only public security but tho Throne itself in danger.

King Alfonso leluetantly signed decrees for martial law and the dissolution of the corps, but refused absolutely to arrest seven highly-placed leaders. The King's action took the oppositionists by surprise. .They were relying upon the known differences between King Alfonso and the Dictator, hence the revolutionary plans miscarred. A general rising in Barcelona was averted by midnight arrests. "Important developments are expected following to-days council."