SPANISH REPUBLIC

Otago Witness, Issue 4028, 26 May 1931, Page 28

SPANISH REPUBLIC

ELECTIONS NEXT MONTH COMPOSITION OF ARAIY. AIADRID, Alay IS. The Bourses at Aladrid and Barcelona have reopened. Securities are firm. The army will comprise 80 infantry divisions, one cavalry, and two mountain brigades, apart from garrisons inland and naval bases. The elections are fixed for June 28. At Afanzanares a parish priest has been arrested and charged with accusing the Government of burning convents. BISHOP ORDERED TO LEAVE. AIADRID, Alay 18. Because he embroiled himself in politics to such an extent that he was a menace to the spiritual and material peace of the Basque country the Alinister of the Interior has ordered the Bishop of Vitoria to leave the country. The bishop refused to comply with an earlier request to cease visits of a political character to his flock, but he has now gone to France. BOMB OUTRAGES. AIADRID, Alay 18. It is reported from the frontier that 11 people were injured in bomb outrages at Lisbon on the occasion of an official ceremony of homage to the President of the Republic. The crowd, stung to fury, retaliated by raiding the offices of the newspaper La Republica and hurling out the furniture. SERIOUS RISING AVERTED. LONDON, Alay 19. The Daily Telegraph's Aladrid correspondent says that the order exiling the Bishop of Vitoria has averted a serious uprising. Catholics in the Basque provinces, where two fanatical civil wars have been fought previously, were armed and ready to rise against the Republic as the result of the bishop’s propaganda on the eve of the elections, which resulted in the downfall of the monarchy. The bishop, who was a friend of Cardinal Segura, was the only prelate to issue a pastoral letter instructing Catholics in the diocese to vote for the monarchists. It is expected that the Government will ban Jesuits from Spain, or prevent them from exercising their teaching functions.

SPANISH AAIBASSADOR. RUGBY, Alay 21. The new Spanish Ambassador, Senor Perez de Ayala, arrived in London tonight and was met by a representative of the Foreign Secretary. SPANISH ROYAL FAAIILY. LONDON, May 21. The correspondent of The Tunes at Aladrid writes: “The person who lately reigned in Spain is far from being in danger of poverty,” says the Finance Minister in revealing 'the results of accountants’ computations of the Royal Family’s fortune, which is estimated' at £1,800,000 at the present rate of exchange. Aluch of it is invested abroad.