IN SPAIN

Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1931, Page 5

IN SPAIN

SEIZED BY REPUBLIC GOVERN-

MENT. (United. Pre&o Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) MADRID, May 14. Affirming that King Alfonso had used his position to enrich himself, the Government, after a Cabinet meeting issued a decree authorising the seizure of all of Alfonso’s possessions, both movable and immovable, in his private estate. The decree added that this includes Alfonso’s fovtune, also certain income-producing- stocks, which, with his securities atid his properties, ate being placed ill a special bank account, Until a Constituent Assembly decides what is to be done with them,

lawlessness SUBSIDING,

(Received 10.20 a.m.) MADRID, May 13

Lawlessness is rapidly subsiding. A crowd yesterday threatened to set fire to the Palace op the Bishop of Malaga unless he fled. The Bishop to save the Palace obeyed and reached Gibraltar where the Bishop of Cadiz was also seeking refuge. The Government, realising the necessity for greater sternness dismissed many police chiefs. The head of a cordon of the civil guard imprisoned the secretary of Cordoban Prefecture, for monarchism. The executive of the Monarchist Club null be prosecuted. The crowd beat a woman who cried “Long live the King” and compelled her to cheer the Republic. At Alicante, Republicans rescued tho Superior of a Monastry when a crowd wa? rushing him to the dockside with a rope around his neck with the in tention of drowning him.