THE SPANISH CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 164, 5 August 1909, Page 2

THE SPANISH CRISIS.

THE BARCELONA RISING. ORGANISED WITH SEatKU .\SU ABILITY. • F/Cable.—Press Association.--UpyrigM London, .tiijjii.ii ■'!• The Times' Madrid correspondent reports that the rising in Baiceioiui was organised with extraordinary ski e.i and fe ability. The general strike, wliicii was 9 decreed on Friday, commenced on Mon- 1 day, and Barcelona was isolated h> me '^M evening. /I'm- st.fke moUuuu'il in |H .Madrid was nipped in tile bud by tiie IS Government arresting Inglcseas and j^JJ other Socialist leaders, and closing the Socialist headquarters. A great major 4^JJ ity of the strikers aiw honest workmen V who objected to the military expedi* V

TIIE PRETENDER'S VIEWS. J Vienna, August i. Don Jaime remains at Vienna. Hi " states that he will only return to Spain at the head'of an army to restore |«-'ace in the event of King Alfonso being dethroned. THE CATALONIAN MOVEMENT. London, August 3. The Times publishes an interview with Antonio Maura, the Spanish Premier, who says the Catalonian movement ended on Saturday, and that out of nine hundred communes there were ouly disturbances in fifteen. The Catalonian brigade at Melilla, he said, fought ex- ■» tremely well. General Marina, toe Premier concluded would soon be in a position to take tiie offensive. Mr. Keir Hardie says " the sordid capitalists' war iu Morocco justified .the Barcelona revolt." THE MOORS AGGRESSIVE. ; EXTRAORDINARY SKILL. Received August 4, 10 p.m. Morocco, August 4. ,Tlie Moors nt midnight attacked and tore up li>o yards of railway before Spanish reinforcements dispersed them. Forty Spaninrds were wounded. A 'balloon is reconnoitring the gorges and ravines in the Gurugu district. The- Melilla correspondent of the Parle *• newspaper Matin states that the Moors are extraordinarily skilful in constructin'g shelters. They dig holes, covered with stones so that only the rifle's barrel appears. The sharpshooters are thus able to lire at almost point blank range. Out of 100 Spanish wounded interrogated i only two had seen the enemy,