SPANISH REBELLION

Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1932, Page 5

SPANISH REBELLION

& POSITION NOW SERIOUS. CABINET APPROVES MEASURES. (United Press Association. —By .Electric Telegraph. —Copyright.; MADRID, January 21. Following on a declaration nv txiiur .-izaiui Liie Pi'emior oi' Spain, that niiess was ’necessary to preserve .ntn.r in the country tne (Juries lias appi oved ui tne proposca iiic..si.res »y votes to 4 votes.

Senor .vnaiia auued: “There are two hundred armed rebels in Manresa, out the siLuat.on is less serious tnan was original. y supposed. i have teie,moiled ui toe m..yor that they must surrender witnin lnteen nnmites, or

line tne eo.iseljUellceSi. i pieslimt. they have surrendered. due cabinet s new measures are tantamount to martial law j and notably ui tne Jiasijue I'loviuces and m Navarro where the monarchists' tyranny lias iii.uriated their opponents. The Governor's powers m those provinces are equivalent to those ot a dictatorship. It is aimed at a complete suppression of the monarchists. . REBELS NUMBER 50,000. PLANES TO ASSIST TROOPS. LONDON, January 21. “The Times” • correspondent at Madrid says;—“Aeroplanes have been ordered to assist the troops to sup-

press u rebellion, which is believed to involve fifty thousand, in the region of Manresa.” '.t'lie correspondent also says it lias been revealed that the itepublican Cabinet had expected on Monday nbxt

January 25th, a general strike aiming at tiie overthrow of the Republic. COMMUNISTS PLAN STRIKE. MADRID. January 21. While the Communists are planning a general revolutionary strike, they have circulated a forged manifesto purporting to eminate from the Workers Confederation, thereby they hope to trick the Monarchists to suppress the strike. The Workers’ Confederation has warned its members to ignore the manifesto order. RISINGS WIDESPREAD. MADRID, January 21. The serious risings throughout Spain are denounced by Seller Azana as being revolutionary. The Cabinet were hastily summoned, and a warship has been sent to Barcelona where the revolution is most serious. The troops at Manresa. have been ordered to secure the immediate suppression of the revolt, FIGHTING IN BARCELONA. MADRID, January 21. There is renewed fighting in Barcelona City, with the attacks directed against the Catholic headquarters. There are numerous casualties. Meanwhile, the Monarchist municipal officials in the Basque Provinces of the north are clapping republicans in gaol. COMMUNICATIONS DISLOCATED. MADRID, January 21. The telegraphs and telephones are dislocated. A well-filled dynamite store at Navascues has been bombed. Communists have cut the railway and derailed a train, many casualties resulting. ANTI-RELIGIOUS DISCONTENT. MADRID', January 21. Discontent is widespread following the Cloveriiment’s anti-religious measures, RAID BY POLICE. BARCELONA, .Tanu r " , v 00 . Police at midnight raided the Trade Union Headquarters here. They arrested the memebrs who were discussing the proposed general strike. They also raided a cafe known to he the centre of the revolutonaries. There were sixty arrests. RESTORATION OF ORDER. BARCELONA, January 22. A message states that the order has I been restored in Manresa, Berga and | elsewhere. .MANY REBELS SURRENDER. this day at 0.2': a.m) MADIVII), January 22.

It is officially stated that Die rebels at I’erga, ManP'sa, Kigolc and Sulk life have surrendered. Bilbao Banker, Jose Unpiiao, and Count Ztibira were arrested on a suspicion of directing the financing the recent, disorder.