The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-29
REBELLION At
HOME FOLLOWS
FOREIGN WAR
Martial Law Is Declared
Throughout Spain as Re-
suit of Uprising.
M00RS MAKING MOST
DESPERATE STRUGGLE
LOSS ENORMOUS ON BOTH SIDES
-RELIABLE NEWS NOT AL
LOWED TO LEAK OUT.

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= Madrid, July 2S.-King Alfonso :
= this afternoon issued a decree pro- =
= claiming martial law and the sus- :.
- pension Of constitutional guaran- =
= tees throughout Spain. :.
= TangieT, Morocco, July 2S.-AIo- =
= rOcCanS who arrived here from Me- =.
= lila say the Spanish authorities are =
= eXpelling all the MOOrs from the =
= city, :.
=: Ell Ferrol, July 2S.-The armored :.
= cruisers EmperadOT Carlos V and =
:: Princess de Asturias and three de- :.
:: stT0yeTs have been ordered to Bar -
: celona. =
:: Cerbere, France, July 2S.-The =
= railroad bridges between Corona =
- and Barcelona have been burned :.
= and a train bound for Port BOu, a =
= village on the Mediterranean. was =
: unable to proceed beyond Villajui- =
: ga, where the passengers left the =
= cars and continued on foot. :.
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Madrid, July 2S.-The revolution in
Catalonia has reached a serious stage.
There is much bloodshed. Artillery has
been employed in the streets of BARGE
Iona TO quen the outbreaks.
The city is teTTOr-stricken. The revO-
lutiOnists are reported to be fighting
desperately behind barTicades. The
troops include mounted artillery and the
defenses of the rebels have been raked
with shot.
King Alfonso fastened back to Madrid
from San Sebastian today and issued a
decree providing martial law and sus-
pension Of the constitutional guarantees
throughout Spain. Orders have been
given to the governors Of provinces to
crush the revolution at any cost without
hesitation and without pity.
Bloody Battle at MeIilIa.
Today marks a black chapter in
SPANS history, for there was tragedy
both at home and abroad. The army at
Melilla had a bloody battle with the
MOors, which. through the victory was
won by the Spaniards, cost the lives of
twenty-Une officers and 200 Spaniards
killed and wounded.
An exact estimate of the dead and
wounded in the clashes between the
troops and rebels in Catalonia is impos-
sible owing to the rigid censorship, and
the government has not fixed a total.
The government admits, however, that
rioters have been killed and wounded in
several localities, including Barcelona,
Nendrell, RiOja, Port Bou and Hanson,
and a general strike was declared at
Biscaya. There has been much de-
struction Of property.
Rebellion at Home.
The center of the rebellion is BARGE
Iona, to which place the government is
rushing extra troops.
A dispatch tonight said that the Bar
celOna reVolutionists had been defeated
as a result of desperate charges by the
troops. Later fighting started again.
the artillery using heavy guns to de-
molish the barbados. At Barcelona no
life is safe, and a proclamation has been
issued warning peaceful citizens to re-
main under cover.
King Alfonso was closeted until a late
hour with Premier Maura, and an Off
cial note was issued saying that the sit
uatiOn wsS exceedingly grave, and that
the rebellion must be depressed with an
iron hand, as the Catalonians were
struggling to engulf all Spain in a revo-
luton. The note says:
Government Manifesto.
''The government has acquired proof
that the agitators seek at all cost to
produce a seditiOUs movement through
out Spain of a character clearly TevO-
lutiOnary. with the object Of preventing
the movement of troops and 10 block
the action Of the government, especially
so far as it concerns the campaign al
NIelilla- The government has ordered
the governor Of the provinces concerned
to employ the most stringent measures
and to maintain order at any cost"
The hostility Of the people against the
Moroccan campaign which has been fol
lowed by widespread disturbances, IS
based on resentment that the nation
has been plunged in a foreign war, and
that the nations sons are being saCri-
feed merely because Of opposition to q
private mining undertaking The poor
er classes from which the regiments art
chiefly drawn are especially bitter
complaining that the man who can pay
$500 is exempt from military service.
The greatest antagOnism has beer
aroused by the mobilization of the re
serves. Many of the men in the reservt
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