Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1930, Page 7

" STRIKES THREATEN ~ FAMINE IN SPAIN 75,000 Troops Are Massed. Martial Law Enforced. Situation Uncertain. (Continued First Page.) * and will continue to perform its duties ‘without fear and without reproach.” | Maj. Ramon Franco, Gen. Queipo de Liano and 10 companions’ who aided them in staging the unsuccessful effort to unseat King Alfonso and establish a Tepublic_escaped in four planes in which they fled after witnessing collapse of their conspiracy when artillery opened fire upon thos: who had joined them at Cuatros Vientos Airdrome here. They ‘were at first received with friendship and open arms by Portuguese military officers, but later wcre ordered brought by the government to Lisbon, where after interrogation by the minister of war they were interned. The government counted . four dead and perhaps 20 wounded as the price of yesterday's events, which developed info desultory rioting in widespread cities and the clash of armed forces here. Two of the dead were at San Sebastian, where two civil guards were killed- and five others wounded in a clash with strikers. Two strikers were | killed at Santander. Aside from several wounded persons, their exact number unknown, there ‘ere no casualties in the shelling of the Cuatros Vientos airdrome. Loyal troops, as n suppression of the Jaca | revolt, were ordered to fire low so as to wound rather than to kill. Pris- oners taken there will be tried before courts-martial, which are beginning their sittings today. The police are continuing a round-up | of persons suspected of participation | in the conspiracy and hundreds of per- sons have been arrested, among them many prominent in Spanish civic snd professional life. The government claimed today through its repressive measures to have stamped out the gen- eral strike in Zamora and Saragossa and to have curbed it greatly in Va- lencia, Santander, San Sebastian and A government manifesto issued today |jeaders in the Huesca rebellion of last | ve an account of yesterday’s events. t says that a group headed by Maj. Ramon Franco and Gen. Queipo de Liano appeared at Cuatros Vientos Air- drome at 6:30 a.m. yesterday and, after haranguing the garrison there, secured some promises of support. Government Moves Quickly. | Thos‘e :el:r ;°:‘.""£?ZL join them the up fore th pi into & hangar l':’d locked the doors, meanwhile splash- ing red paint over the government markings on airplanes nearby. of these they took into the air to dis- tribute circulars over Madrid, proclaim- ing a republic and threatening to bomb military garrisons and official quarters if the soldiers and officials did not im- mediately join the revolution. The government quickly moved the Leon Regiment of 2,000 men, under Gen Orgaz, up, and meanwhile some government artiilery began a bombard- ment of the airfield. As the Leon Regi- ment advanced with fixed bayonets Wwhite flag was run up, and the muti- neers, numbering perhaps 1,000, sur- rended. Franco and his companions took to their planes again and fled, to descend later in various parts of Potugal. ‘There was rioting in San Sebastian, Santander and Bilbao incident to the strike, but the movement no- where had the aspect of a general Re- publican uprising, which the con- spirators had planned. This may have been due in part to the government’s recaution in arresting Republican ders Sunday. STREET RIOTS REPORTED. Mob Shouts ‘Death o King’ Before Alfonso’s Summer Palace. panish Fron- tier, December 16 (#).—Refugees pour- ing out of Spain into this border town today brought news of serious disorders crowding upon the heels of Spain's RDewest revolutionary movement. | At S:ntander there were riots in the | Streeis. they sald. ‘In many towns and cities throughout the north army bakers were dealing out bread and soup while provision stores remained closed in a general strike. In Madrid, some of them reported, the jails were overfiow- ing with :u-nected’ revolutionists and the ministe. ( * the interior was reported to have th: ..ened his resignation. Loyal Troops Patrel Streets. A Mere the request of The Star ‘and the ican Newspaper Alllance. the ick and Alba, 1 . His_opinions are generally accepted ‘as reflecting the views of the ng. BY THE DUKE OF BERWICK AND ALBA, Minister of State cf Spain. By Cable to The Star and the North Ameri- ean Newspaper Alliance. MADRID, December 16.—I speak as always with absolute sincerety. THe incident at Jaca is lamentable, but it does not go beyond a mere incident. Jaca is a small town in the Pyrenees, near the Prench frontier and is far dis- tant from important centers. Even Huesca, the capital of the province of the same name, against which the rebels marched, is a city of small importance. The rebels, few in number, began by advancing 20 kilometers from Jaca into a sparsely populated territory. At Ayerbe, where they met the first op- position, they were scattered. Later, when they reassembled, the military forces from Huesca and Sarogassa met Spanish Minister, Close Friend of King Alfonso, Re- fuses to Consider Revolt Threat at Jaca as Important. .| the exception of a few unbalanced men Incident and defeated them after a short en- gagement. [t has been proved clearly that, with | in Jaca, the whole army is loyally sup- port'ng the government regime of luv‘ and order, It also has been proved that ARTLLERY BLANED REBELS FORCOUP FALURE Maj. Franco Says Corps|King Alfonso Might Leave Pledged Aid, but Backed Out at Last Minute. By the Associated Press. the plans of the revolutionists are| LISBON, Portugal, December 16.— D. C, TUFSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1930. GAINING, LONDON INFORMED Madrid Today, Dispatch From Paris Says. By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 16.—A Paris dis- doomed to failure because in Spain | Maj, Ramon Franco told an interviewer patch to the London Daily Mail today there is no tendency toward subversive | today that he and his compatriots had movements and the army is faithfully |failed yesterday in their attempt to | gents were gaining the upper hand and carrying out its duties. The government necessary means to The lamentable Jaca incident has momentarily interrupted the progress toward complete normality, but it will overthrow the Spal all the re tranquillity. | jery corps, after the movement, " When the artin fire - e opened of not change the government program, |against us,” he commegud. “there was | tionary movement. nish |establish & republic because the artil- |today. Dledging adhesion to Gibraltar dispatches stated that the ou id that official quarters had received !l::rormnuon that the Spanish insur- that King Alfonso might leave Madrid back last | Spanish government had called part of the famous Spanish Foreign Legion out Morocco to combat the revol One_thousand f Wwhich is 1o lead Spain to a parliamen- | only one alternative—surrender. Nev- |eign legionnaires were disembarked ai tary democracy in the first months of | ertheless, nothing can arrest the repub- lican movement, which will soon awam In one month a republic 1831, when the general elections will be held! The incident at Jaca now has been | SF um completely liquidated and the govern- o S Algeciras from the steamer Sagunto last i entraining - immediately for Another detachment is due at Alge- proclaimed. He said that the object of their at- | ciras today, while others. landing simul- ment emerges strengthened by the | mpt was “to establish liberty and im- | taneously at Mal a, will join the Sa- struggle imposed upon it by insane ele- | oee 8 constitution on the Spanish |gunto contingent at Bobadilla Station ments, curred yesterday morning, (Copyright, 1930, in all Countries, by North American ‘Newspaper Alliance.) curred throughout the city. The mob surged back and forth before King Al fonzo's Summer palace shouting, “Hur- rah for the republic, death to the king.” Most of the rioters were workmen, carrying pistols. They stormed through putting up spirited resistance to the police, soldiers and civil guards. Minister Protests Executions. Secret service men raided the homes of suspected liberal labor leaders and the dormitories of university students in Madrid, making arrests and seizing a quantity of arms. The prisoners who could not be accommodated in the jails There was a report that Minister of the Interior Estrada, in a cabinet meet- ing last night, protested vigorously against the execution of two unlr Priday, and that Minister of Economy | Viguri had joined him. Both said they would resign from the cabinet, it was said, but would withhold announce- ment of their resignation until the sit- uation became quieter. WEALTHY FLOCK TO FRANCE. Business Slowly Returning to Normal in San Sebastian. SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, December 16 (#).—Private cars and taxicabs to- day choked the highway along which Alfonso motored to Biarritz. The ithy of San Sebastiap were flocking out of Spain #tross the ch frontier. Most of them were headed for Saint Jean De Luz, France, where already many others have taken rem&e. The cab drivers from Hendaye, on other side of the border, were doing & rushing business. Tn San Sebastian itself business was slowly returning to normal. Some of the markets were open, and except for the industrial suburbs of Pasajes and Remteria work went on pretty much as usual. Factories in the suburbs were closed under a general strike order and the workman roamed the streets in idle- ness. Soldiers were everywhere, young fel- lows jaunty in their red berets. The trolley service between San Sebastian and Hendaye, discontinued since yes- terday, began to move again this after- noon. Eachs car was manned by two soldiers, carrying rifles. WALKOUT IN BILBAO. Workers Quit Under Gemeral Strike Order—City Is Quiet. BILBAO, Spain, December 16 (#).— This city’s workmen threw down their tools today and walked out under a eral strike order, which appeared'to gn T over all Northern Spain. There were no disorders. 12 ml"b IN PORTUGAL. Spanish Officers Rounded Up After Welcome by Air Force. LISBON, Portugal, December 16 (#). —The Portuguese government today had off its hands 12 Spanish army of- ficers, among them the transatlantic aviator, Maj. Ramon Franco, who were | Last night loyal troops with machine amn and tear bombs patrolled San- nder, putting down riots which re- GIFT +H From countless we point out an Gift value —this electric synchronous ust 1': welcome as proverbial white ele- ' Fleeing Spain in four airplanes yes- terday after collapse of their attempt NTS suggestions outstanding Full Symchronous hall clock (as pictured to the right), beautiful Colonial design. 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R aecsport ¥ decnnm a {yev ‘weeks | reflection upon their Joyalty. had been hiding village near Madrid. “I did not had them rounded up and brought to | want to go too far away from the gov- a place of internment at Mafra, near | ernment or his majesty, (m-l; Xnew e, lution was inevitable.” m&:.?n'fi;”mem de Llano y Sierra, the United States, left Bremerhaven people which, republican or otherwise, | and accompany it to Madrid. A hun- And these remarks apply equally 0|5 matter whlch,,mwwld permit Spain | dred ci the brief aviation incident which oc- |io preathe freely. I wished, out of pa- | been triotism, to put an end to the Jrmanny ang s guards at Algeciras also have it to Madrid. Some of the leglonnaires refused, they 's | said, to embark for Spain until they were guaranteed double pay. Regular Algeciras troops appeared somewhat dis- gruntled that the government had called eeling that it was a Kellogg on Way Home. BERLIN, December 16 (#).—Frank B, Kellogg, former Secretary of State of for to guarantee political asylum, but Spain | general of brigade, reputed chief of the | this afternoon aboard the Bremen and Portugal always haye had a sort |revolutionaries and one of the 12 men | New York. of working agreement whereby each |to arrive here in airplanes from Madrid, | government aided the other in sup-|said that the failure of their plans was | mm’ of national defense and not the pression of its internal difficulties, and | due primarily to the rashness of Capt. a request for extradition of the 12 men | Fermin may be hard to deny. Galan Rodriguez, who was ex- ecuted after suppression of the revolt| yyjons pecause they alone are able to On the other hand, should asylum be | at Jaca Saturday. granted, or internment continued, Maj. co sessed with a amounts to zealotry, and the Portu- spirits roaming around loose. being panions dropped and his compatriots are ob- | Galan npugl.lcanum which | tience. We had recruited men upon | g whom we thought 'emomnh d wun':,l!:at guese dictatorship, always wary of rev- | they failed to keep t engage! i olution {tself, do:s not want such free | Galan, al obsessed with the idea of puclpltaudm A - | wanted something more than a repub- iy m'éfi'; ;nhdu:l:;;% e&-:y lic, and 50 as to be at the head of the " | shij instrument of gov ent. We wished power to be placed in the hands of ci- govern, and as the monarchy had been “It was unfortunate,” h;";‘fl “that | tne strongest supporter of the dictator- we turned toward .the republic new horizons of liberty. “Spain suffers from the work of Primo de Rivera and of Damaso Berenguer, who have kept from the government things. He | men who by their assiduous study of national problems alone were capable of carrying out a sound government policy. had taken from the Cuatros Vientos | revolutionary movement he decided 10 | Convinced of administrative incapacity Airdrome start three days before the date fixed. 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