The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-29
DESTROYERS AND
CRUISERS SENT
TO BARCELONA
Artillery Used in Streets to
Put Down Riots
KING DECLARES MARTIAL LAW
Orders to Provincial Governors to
Crush Rebellion at any Cost and
Without Pity

Ferrol, Spain, July 29.-Two cruls-
ers and three destroyers were ordered
to leave here at once and proceed
direct TO Barcelona to assist the mil
itary authorities there in putting
down the instruction.
Madrid July 29.-The revolution in
Catalonia has reached a serious stage.
There is much bloodsned and artil-
lery has been employed IN the streets
iof Barcelona to quell the outbreaks.
The city is terror stricken. The revo-
llutionists are reported to be fighting
desperately behind barricades. The
| troops include mounted artillery and
the defenses of the rebels have been
raked with shot.
| King Alfonso fastened back to Mad
rid from SanSebastian yesterday and
, at once issued a decree proclaiming
martial law and tne suspension of
constitutional guarantees throughout
| Spain. Orders have been given to
| the governors of the provinces to
crush the revolution at any cost with
out hesitation and without pity. Yes.
terday marked a black chapter in
SPANS history, for there was tragedy
both at home and abroad. The king
reached here in time to learn that
part of his army at Melilla had a
bloody battle with the Moors, which,
though the final victory was the Span
iard's, cost the lives of 81 officers and
total of 200 Spaniards killed or
wounded.
The exact estimate of the dead and
wounded in the clashes between the
troops and rebels in Catalonia Is Inn
possible, owing to the rigid censor
ship. The government admits. how
ever, that rioters have been killed and
wounded in several cities and towns.
including Barcelona, Alcoy and Gala.
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The center of the rebellion is Bar
celonia to which place the govern
ment is rushing extra troops, both in
fantry and naval marines. A dis
patch this morning said that the Bar
celona revolutionists had been de
feated as a result of desperate
charges by the troops, but dispatch
at noon announced that fighting had
begun again. the artillery using
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cades. The peaceful section of the
population fed in fright to their
homes and locked and barred them
selves in. A military proclamation
has been issued at that city that no
life is safe, and warning peaceful cit
liens to remain under cover to avoid
the fire of the troops.
Late telephone advices from BARGE
Iona describe the disturbances as ter
rible, especially in the Paraleto dis
trict, where genarmes and mounted
artillerymen charged the mobs with
drawn sabres.
In the Palace De Catalina, street
cars were burned and a carriage con-
tanning several correspondents was
struck by bullets. Infantry guards
the house of the civil governor and
the financial institutions.
A mob headed by women was dis
persed by cavalry yesterday afternoon
many women and children being shot.
Red Cross workers are giving aid to
the wounded the municipal doctors
being unable to attend to all.
Barcelona's suburbs are the picture
of desolation. At Pueblo Nuevo, the
convent is badly damaged and the
church of San Pablo and the paro-
chial schools are smoking ruins. TIE
rioters have constructed their barrl-
cades with the wreckage from rail-
road bridges and the men behind the
barbados are well supplied with arms
and ammunition.
Every soldier on leave has been or
dered to report for duty Several
regiments have already entrained
for Barcelona.