Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-29

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WI law has been declared by
AA King Alfonso throughout
Spain.
News from Melilla, Morocco,
shows that, in yesterdays battle,
the cost to the Spanish forces was
more than 200 in dead and
wounded, the slain including Gen.
Pintos, two lieutenant colonies
commanding naval contingents
and large number of other
officers.
At Barcelona artillery has been
employed to quell the outbreaks.
The city is terror-strlcken. The
revolutionists are reported to be
fighting desperately behind barri-
cades. The troops include mount
ed artillery and the defenses OF
the rebels have been raked with
shot.
No Estimate of Dead
An exact estimate OF the dead
and wounded in the clashes be-
tween the troops and rebels in
Catalonia is impossible because OF
the rigid censorship, and the gov
ernment has not fixed total.
The government admits, how
ever, that rioters have been killed
and wounded in several cities, in
Guiding Barcelona and Alcoy.
There has been rioting at Saragossa,
Vendrell, Rioja, Port Bou and Llanson,
and a general strike was declared at
Bscaya.
There has been much destruction of
property. The center of the rebellion
is Barcelona, whittier the government
is rushing extra troops. dispatch
tonight said the Barcelona revolution
lists had been defeated as result of
desperate charges by the troops Later
fighting started again. the artillery us
ing heavy guns to demolish the barrt-
cades
Warfare Hot at Barcelona
At Barcelona no life is safe, and
proclamation has been issued warning
peaceful citizens to remain under
cover.
King Alfonso was closeted until a
late hour with Premier Maura, and an
official note was issued saying the situ-
alton was exceedingly grave and that
the rebellion must be repressed with an
iron hand, as the Catalonians were
struggling to engulf all Spain In rev.
olution. The note says:
"The government has acquired PROOF
that the agitators seek at all costs TO
produce a seditious movement through
out Spain, of a character clearly reVo-
lutionary, with the object of preventing
the movement of troops and to block
the action of the government, especial
ly so far as it concerns the campaign
at Melilla The government has or
dered the governors of the provinces
concerned to employ the most strin-
gent measures and to maintain order
at any cost"
The hostility of the people against the
Moroccan campaign, which has been
followed by widespread disturbances, Is
based on resentment that the nation
has been plunged in foreign war ana
that the nations sons are being sacrl-
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private mining undertaking.
Poorer Glasses Resentful
The poorer classes from which the
regiments are chiefly drawn are es-
pecially bitter, complaining that the
man who can pay $500 is exempt from
military service.
The greatest antagonism mas beeli
aroused by the mobilization of the re-
serves. Many of the men In the re-
serve forces have large families, with
out means of support ether than what
they themselves can earn. Touching
scenes occurred when the POOR work.
men were called to the colors. They
wandered distractedly about the streets
leading their children, whom, finally,
they were forced to abandon. At the
last moment however, the government
decided to keep the reserves in the
home garrisons and charitable people
oYsH n % nr the nnnr0-
tected wives and children.
Advices from the front say that the
holy war sentiment is spreading among
the interior tribesmen, who, as soon
as their crops are gathered, are ex-
pected to flock to the coast and join
the Riffians.
Women and Children Shot
Late telephone advices from BARGE
Iona describe the disturbances as ter
rible, especially in the Paraleto dis
trict. where gendarmes and mounted
artillerymen charged the mobS with
drawn sabres.
When the military governor rode
through the streets to proclaim a state
Of siege the crowds advanced so men
acingIy that a squadron of cavalry
was forced to charge. Women and
children took refuge in ST Monica's
church.
street cars were burned and car
riage containing several correspondents
was struck by bullets.
A mob headed by women was dis
persed by cavalry, many women and
children being shot. Red Cross work
ers are giving aid to the wounded, the
municipal doctors being unable to at
tend TO all.
Barcelonas suburbs are the picture |
of desolation At Puebla Nuevo, the |
convent is badly damaged and the |
church of San Pablo and the parochial
schools are in ruins.
The rioters have constructed their
barrlcades with the wreckage from
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