WAR AND REVOLT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9560, 5 August 1909, Page 5

WAR AND REVOLT.

THE SPANISH CRISIS. CATALONIAN UPRISING SUPPRESSED. Un' te d Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received August 4, 9 a.m. LONDON, August 3. "The Times" correspondent at Madrid, who has had an interview with Senor Moura, the Spanish Premier, states that the Catalonian revolutionary movement ended on Saturday. Out of nine hundred communes, disturbances occurred in only fifteen. The Catalonian Brigade at Melilla fought extremely well.

General Marina, the Spanish commander in Morocco, will soon be in a position to the offensive.

KEIR HARDIE'S OPINION. Received August 3, 9.20 a.m. LONDON, August 3. " *Mr Keir Hardie, M.P., in a speech at Sutton Coldfield, said the sordid avarice of capitalists had provoked the war in Morocco, and had justified the Barcelona revolt.

BARCELONA REVOLT. ORGANISED WITH EXTRAORDINARY SECRECY AND ABILITY. Received August 4, 9.40 a.m. !? LONDON, August _ 3.^; "The Times'" Madrid *correspondent reports that the risingjat Barcelona was organised with extraordinary secrecy and ability. A general strike was Friday, and commenced on Monday. Barcelona was isolated by the'evenof tbe'strike. The movement in Madrid was nipped in the bud by the Government arresting Iglesias and other Socialist leaders, and closing the Socialist headquarters. The great majority of the strikers, the correspondent states, were honest workmen, who objected to the military expeditions to Morocco.

CLAIM TO THE CROWN DEFERRED. Received August 4, 9.40 a.m. , VIENNA, August 3. . Don Jaime, son and heir of the late Don Carlos, remains in Vienna. He states that he will only return to Spain at the head of an army to restore peace in the event of King Alfonso Being dethroned. A MIDNIGHT ATTACK. Received August 4, 10 p.m. MOROCCO. August 4. The Moors at midnight made an attack and tore up 150 yards of railway before reinforcements dispersed them. Forty Spaniards were wounded. PARIS, August 4. The Melilla correspondent of the newspaper "Le Matin," states that the Moors are extraordinariy skil'ul in constructing shelters. Sharpshooters dig holes covered with stones so that only the rifle barrel appears and they are able to fire almost at a point blank range. Out of one hundred Spanish wounded interrogated only two said they had seen the enemy.