The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-02-27
REVOLT IN SPAIN
Storm Center at BarceIona-Hun-
dreds Shot Down in Riots.
General WeyIer in Control Of the Army
Machinery-Civil War Imminent.


the throes of a revolution. The
center is at Barcelona.
Troops and organized rioters
are in constant conflict there.
and many hundreds have been
killed or wounded.
The man of the hour and the
one practically in supreme con-
troll Of the nation is General Wey-
Ter That martial law will be de-
clared at once throughout the
whole of Spain is certain.
This will place the destinles of
the revolving peorlo in the hands
of the man whose course in Cuba
was responsible for the Spanish
American war and the disasters
which followed
For years Spain has feared the
blow that has fallen. That it
should come on the eve of the
actual accession to power of the
young king is not only signifi-
cant, but it is more perilous to
the future than can be foretold,
The Whole of Spain is in terror.
The rioting at Barcelona and
at other points is only the boiling
over of the terrible cup of dis
trust and anarchy that has been
so long brewing.
Up to the last days the Sagas-
ia government has professed to
believe that the Barcelona trou
bleS, and in fact those of entire
Catalonia, were purely artificial.
but the point has passed where
this view can be continued, as is
evidenced by the extreme action
of the premier in preparing to
proclaim martial rule and give
Weylerthe supreme power of the
entire nation. Taxation on the
necessities of lie Is the key to
the revolt.
Troops eve pouring into Bar
celona from all quarters, and are
engaged by hordes of maddened
anarchists the moment they APP
pear. Women and children are
treated with unconcern, and both
the military and the rioters are
frenzied Starvation awaits the
troops unless they can hold 10
the rioters, who already are in
control of the stores and mar
kets.
That civil war in its worst
form will be precipitated by the
PRONUNCIATION of Sagasta's mar
tiai law decree is confidently be-
lieved and predicted.
Weyler is eager for the fray.
He alone seems to have foreseen
the crisis and held himself in
readiness for the bloody work
that will come with an actual
outbreak Sagasta is awaken
ing, while the queen regent, her
self more than the fgurehead she
IS popularity supposed to DO, is
in terror over the result as affect
ing her son. She has bravely
and successfully brought him to
point where he is nearly able
to take up his crown. and to see
her life work threatened with
humiliation at this crisis in its
affairs is to her the keenest of
agony.
The young king is carefully
guarded. as usual, and if the
worst comes every effort will be
made to have him conveyed from
SPAN to Austria, where he can
be sure of a safe refuge until his
future is assured in one form or
another.
A message from Barcelona
says a fierce battle has been
fought between the troops and
the rioters in the suburb of Bar
celona known at Sano. Before
the engagement the cavalry and
infantry had been posted in the
most dangerous points and held
battery had been located on the
plaza, from which vantage point
the guns could sweep the sur
rounding streets.
When the final clash with the
troops occurred the artillery was
brought into action and raked
street after street. The rioters
engaged the batteries at close
range, but were finally driven
off.
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