SPAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1917, Page 5

SPAIN.

THE CRISIS REACHED. DATO MUOT RESIGN. REVOLUTION A3fD GENERAL STRIKE TEffi alternative. T Tinea Service. Received Jiily 24, 10.30 p.m. London, July 23. The Times' Barcelona correspondent states that the details of the meeting of th# Catalonian deputies show that three trusted regiments w#r« hurried frt>m Sakinaßfia #ith a big force of armed police, rho watt Led the proposed Meeting place* the Hotel de Villc. MeanVrhHcv seventy-one deputies gathered olsswhere and passed a resolution demanding tie coavooation of the Cortes, Ortf T«(omtion of tiho political system, the abolition of pro-monarohial censorahip, and they appointed three committees.

: tie civil Gtrw-nor,- discovering that he ted -teen otrtmanoeiavSed, despatched a Strong 1 fcrce to clear out t3ie Ramp Assembly, which met the summons to dissolve With a point blank (, No." The t) oVernor therefore ordered the soldiers to Svifct the deputies and senators singly. The correspondent adds tliat critical stage -tate been reached. The Govefliownt i'-j losing its authority, and the assembly's manifesto i 9 everywhere under the nose of the police. If .Senor Bato does not resign, the "revolution must have the last word, preceded by a s<aicral strike.