POPE AND SPAIN.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 August 1910, Page 3

POPE AND SPAIN.

1 — CRISIS NOT OYER. EMPHATIC DECLARATION BY THE PREMIER. CIVIL POWERI'O PREVAIL. ' MSTINOTLY ANTI-CLERICAL.' [Bt ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.] j>ER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) MADRID, August 14. Senhor Canalejas, in the eou.rse of at' interview, saiil that the majority of both Chambers >s distinctly anticlcrical. ' Wo shall, lie continued, "establish a preponderance of civil power. Thfe Vatican's attitude has rallied Liberals of every shade to the Govornmont. The status quo is now ei ced." The Premier categorically denied thai the British Royal Family had inspired the Government in its antiVr. titan policy. [A cablegram on Thursday stated that the Spanish Ambassador to the \ atiean and the Papal Nuncio had had a meeting with a view to discussing a modus vivendi between Rome and Spain, and the inference was drawn in soinoquarters that the existing difficulties might now be smoothed over. To-day's cable, hor. ever, makes it abundantly clear that the Spanish Government is detei mined to wage war on the Religious Orders, which have multiplied enormouslv in Spain within recent years _ the duel between the two parties is being watched with intense j interest throughout Europe.]