The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-01
SPANISH ARMY KILLS REVOLT Government Now Con
 trols Situation. DREcT HE AGAINST CHURCH Hobs Wfeak. Vengeance Upon
 Monks and Nuns. TrssDs Durs.s v1sss ssasss as4s-ss T. Fire Q. Raetsrs--ssvsns.s
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DRHcT RE AGAINST CHURCH

Faris, July St.--AlfhoIgh the direct uispnt tchrs received from Madrid which pass through the hands of censor Asree that General Brandss. tue mili- s s commander at Barceiona. has rutnlessiy crushed tho revolt there. executing many ring leaders, and that tne government is now in control of tne situation, reports nlterinx out at Csbere. on the French frontier, none of which. however, were later than of July %, indicate that the mob had then had the upper hand and that nothing n history with ths execution of the cious drama being enacted.
 In, the tales brought out from Spain much remains obscure but all the re- ports agree that the movement was skiflully organized and broke like . bolt from q clear sky. Three facts stand out prominently:
 First the troops In the earliest stages refused to Ire on the mob. eith- fericr, or because they were in sym pathy with the mob
 Second, that the movement wac dis tfnctly revolutionary ani anti-clericals and third. the fury If the mob was vented almost entirely against the church and its representatives, prl- yate property being generally spared " Cfffxens Acclaim Troops.
 Eye witnesses snw the popuiace ev. erywhere acclatming the troops. while carsing and ighting the police and the civil guard ana the cries were sDown with the government~
 .Down with the King.
 "Long live the repubiic.~
 i The stories sof the ferocity of the mob toward church properly ana the priests monks and nuns are incred- @.. A. vnA 4G through the subterranean passages in the monasseries were beaten and kin- ed. The nuns fleeing from the burn- ing consents were driven haix-naked through the streets and the priests, ft Is reported were shot at the steps of the altar. IL ss even stated that tho mangIed bodies of monks were eer- rieA- on holes through the streets by 10000 people and tbat the csptaiu gen- eral was hs1piess to interfere.
 The many rsports a8fe4 khat shs ssevsintiouafy comfnitsee directed eY4 aryfhiur. Natwifhssandfne thie kntI- clerical fsrocftys other repcffe fnti- mate that the CarlistaI who stand for clerical reaction In Spain, had q hand in the generalization of the upriefn&.
 special dispatches from Bafcelons say the situation there continues fo fYnprcye. The troops have dispeeeed rioters who were seeking 70 reltght the ruins of the convents. The bar ricades near the Ssraleto Hospital strong revolutionary rallyings point. have been ieyeiisd by cannon. Might thousand men have arrtved to enforce the Barcelona garrison.
 The French consul at Port Sou. village on the Mediterranean sea im- mediately south of the French bound ary, reports that the railroad service has been resumed bstween Port Bcu and Gerona but that oommnnicaticn se Barcelona is stiii cut. The consul says he does not believe that the move. nient is anti governmental or asiarch. istic but that 1t is purely anticiesicAl
 The Madrid correspondent of The Figaro had sn interview with eenor I.acierva, the, Spanish minister of the interior, in which the minister said:
 '.The insurrection at Barcelona was of terrible gravity. I don't know if since the commune there has been any thing so terribie-the battle in the streets with cannon; incendisrism; the pillaee of convents; explosion of dy- namite and the destruction of the rail- sOad--nothing was missing"