SPANISH ELECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 June 1931, Page 6

SPANISH ELECTIONS

REPUBLICAN HOPES

(United Press Association. —By Electric

Telegraph—Copyright]

MADRID, June 29. Definite results of elections cannot be known until, Tuesday.

Tn Catalonia, the Party led by General Macia, Governor of the province, were victorious. Macia’s Party gamed forty-two out of the fifty-three seats allotted to the Catalonian Province. There was immense enthusiasm in Barcelona. Though there were some fears Cut Macia's success would encourage the proclamation of a Catalan Republic, speaking after declaration of the poll, General Macia stated that he would present Catalonia’s demands to the new Cortes. He was sure that the Cortes ..would grant their, demands. There have been five killed as the result of election rioting.

The Government measures in the Basque region were effective in preventing disturbances.

■A SMALL POLL. MADRID, June 29. Tt is estimated that only sixty per cent, of those who voted at the recent municipal elections, which overthrew King Alfonso, went to the poll on SunOf King Alfonso, no one seems to say a word. The. Republican Socialist coalition is confident of a big success in the voting.

THE COMMUNISTS. talk of fresh revolution. MADRID, June 29. At the elections, the Communists, who are always fishing in troubled waters, concentrated their chief efforts at Seville, but perfect order prevailed. The “Daily 'Mail’s” Madrid correspondent says: “The real revolution m ■Spain has yet to come. ‘Zamora is only a Kerensky!’—so reads a telegram taken from the Republican agitator, Franco's pocket after his accident. Franco now alleges that Government agents sawed off the beams beneath his platform, a broken plank 0 f which caused his injury. He will probably be. freed .when his leg heals.”