WORLD REVOLT PLANNED

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 587, 13 February 1929, Page 9

WORLD REVOLT PLANNED

ITALIANS AND SPANIARDS HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE (United Service) LONDON, Monday, The Paris correspondent of the “Daily Mail” reports that a pact to stir up a word revolution, and to fig-lit any strong Government, wherever it may be found, commencing with Italy and Spain, has been signed on behalf of Italian and. Spanish revolutionaries. The signatories for the Italians were Signors Eugenio Chiesa, a former Minister, and Faccinettiex, a member of the Chamber of Deputies. For the Spanish Radicals, the signatories were Senors Unamuno and Gasset. The pact is described as an alliance of Italian and Spanish Republicans. It follows repeated failures on the part of the anti-Fascists to overthrow the Governments of Signor Mussolini and General Primo de Rivera. The parties pledge themselves to combine all the means in their power to do this, and also to attempt to persuade the League of Nations to exclude Italy and Spain from membership, on the ground that the Governments of those countries are incompatible with the democratic spirit of the League. Italian anti-Fascists are, for the most part, seeking refuge in Southeast France. The opponents of General de Rivera have their headquarters partly in Paris and partly at St. Jean de Luz, and in luxuriously villas between Biarritz and the Spanish frontier. SPANISH CONSPIRATORS Senor Sanchez Guerra, the former Prime Minister of Spain; who is under arrest in connection with the recent attempted rising in his country, has been landed with his son at Minorca.

The fact is now revealed that they had landed at Valencia under assumed names to lead a revolt, but merely walked into a trap, as the plans for the rising had miscarried.