The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-02
WAR MUST
 CONTINUE King Alfonso Determined to Check Revolution at
 Any Cost FOLLOWS POLICY
 OF PREMIER MAURA 
 Rebels of Barcelona Holding Their Own Against the Government Troops / Real Origin of Popular Ha- tired is the Corrupt and
 N,c,,o1 Ni.,icfrxr
Special from United Press.)


 Madrid Aug. 2.-The war with Mo
 rocco will go on and there will be no let up in the stern methods to check the revolution at home. Ignoring the advice of both his cabinets and mili- tary advisers, King Alfonso decided to-day to uphold the policy of Premier Maura, the following of which is gen orally held to be responsible for the riotouss condition of affairs at home and abroad Alfonso met with his 1 ministers and military advisers to- day The majority of the cablnet l frankly told Alfonso that Maura's I policy was dangerous and begged him to abandon it.
 The officials told the King the Mo- roccan war was surely a disastrous war but he announced that at present the government would uphold Premier ! Maura with all it's strength Alfonso turn to San Sebastian and prepare his | warships for service should a crisis arise.
 It is officially stated that 119 Barce- Iona insurgents were courtmarIlaisa n tlef Among the number was President Iglesias of the provincial republic es* ! ta blished there. IglesIas was the brother of the famous Socialist leader. REBELS STILL RAMPANT. Hendaye, France, Aug 2--The re- bels of Barcelosa are still holding their | own against the government troops ! according to messages from there to- day. The governments official state ! rnent is that Barcelona is quiet,' but this refers only to the central district which the soldiers control with fheayy artillery force. This district is ! comparatively small. The remainder | of the city is in the hands of the revo- | lutionists who are still burning and 1 dyramiting buildings and shooting at the soldiers.
 l. News Struggled across the frontier is Ito the effect that the revolution is Erapidly spreading and that anarchy tprevaiIs throughout the entire province of Catalonia.
 Rebel bands are pillaging and sack ! ing villages. burning farmhouses and ! killing the live stock. Ruins are con | spicuous on every road leading to Barcelona. A French factory at Pala- ] mos was bursed by the rebels to-day. I The superintendent of the factory re- fused to allow his men to join the rebellion and was shot by the mob while defending his family from at ! tack. The torch was then applied to the. factory.
 Other outrages have been committed against the French residents of Cata- 1onia and the French Consular Agents | have asked their government to come ! to their aid. Several Frenchmen are believed to have been killed. The execution of the mob leaders Ehas been accompanied by much blood shed as daring bands of revolutionists bhave attempted to rescue their com trades from the military guards and many have been shot down in the futile display of courage. Barcelona's condition is pitiable. The city is in darkness. All the gas and electric plants are destroyed. Watermains have been broken and water famine is imminent.
 ! The food situation Is acute. No meat
 supplies have reached the city for week and bakeries have been forced to close for want of flour. People are now the third rations and hungry mobs are already beginning to form.
 The hospitals are overflowing with the wounded. Scores have died from Hack of attention and there is no re- | lief irl sight with soldiers and rioters
 walking the streets with dangerous
 wounds that have never been dressed No Red Cross nurses venture into the streets to relieve the wounded. Nuns
 from the 3S convents that have been destroyed are ready to help but owing l to the bitter feeling against them 1 among the revo1utionists they dare not 1 appear in public except in male attire.
 Two nuns were reported shot to-day l by the soldiers as they were on mis- tsions of mercy.
 Steamers arriving here to-day from Port VendreS report heavy artillery fire all along the coast A number of Fcorresposdents who sought to get into Barcelona have been held up by the
 Insurgents and forced across the ffrontier. The revolutinary wave is fconsidered to be spreading eastward land westward from Barcelona.
 GENERAL STRIKE ORDER
 6By Charles P. Stewart, European
 Manager of the United Press.)
 London, Aug. 2.-I returned to-day
 from a weeks stay in Madrid and
 other Spanish cities, where I made a
 thorough canvass of the revolutionary
 situation. Unless the leaders of the
 strike movement in Spain weaken in
 their determination a general indus
 trial strike throughout the whole of
 Spain will ae under way within the
 next AS hours. The tie-up will include
 water plants, street cars and railway
 lines. Industrial stagnation all over
 Spain with the possible except of a loyal strip in the northern part will
 result.
 Dispatches say that the workingmen
 in Bilbao, Sargasa, Valencia and Pala- mos have already issued the strike
 order not A wheel is turning in