Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-02
REvOLUTIONISTS
THREATEN PEACE
OF SPANS KING
DESPITE CENSORSHIP BAD
NEWS CREEPS OUT
OFFICIALS DENY ALFoNso'S AD-
MINIsTRATIoN is ToTTERiNG
Madrid Authorities Have Equal
Trouble In Suppressine Disorder
and Newspaper Reports of
Serious Conditions
[Ry Associated Press.l

nARIS, Aug. Though official Spain
minimizes the Catalonian insur-
- rection and insists the revolt has
been crushed, a far different story
emanates from the frontier. Refugees
and travellers declare the revolt is still
rampant and that desperate combats
continue at Barcelona, where fifty reVo-
lutionaries are reported to have been
wounded in a conflict which occurred as
late as Saturday night.
Information concerning the actual
situation in Barcelona and the rest of
the province is rarer tonight than ever
before. Although some of the news
from the frontier is from revolutionary
sources and therefore open to sus-
picion, more reliable intelligence leads
to the belief that although Barcelona is
camer the insurrectionists have taken
to the suburbs and the outlying district
where they are sowing the seeds of re-
volt and innaming the populace to
maintain the struggle to the bitter end. |
Barcelona province is in the hands of
prowling bands of workmen, heavily |
armed, who occupy the railroads and
highways to prevent communication
and who refuse entrance to new comers.
Carefully Censor News
Cassan de la Selva is in the hands of
the reVomtionaries and at Palamos, |
where the monastery was fired and the
monks tortured, the situation is de-
scribed as alarming and the lives of
foreigners endangered.
The opinion in semi-official circles |
here concerning Spain's internal situa-
tion is pessimiStlc, and the belief is |
expressed the trouble is not yet over. |
Official Madrid announces Barcelona is |
tranquil.
From Melilla comes the news of an
other Spanish convoy being ambushed |
and several of its officers being |
wounded before the troops succeeded |
In extricatng themselves from the at |
tack of the tribesmen.
Rumors are afoat that general |
strike will be launched tomorrow at |
Madrid and that a strike is being or
ganized in the Biscayan region. All |
persons subject to military duty are
forbidden to leave Spain, and meas |
ures have been adopted to forestall |
outbreaks in the other provinces of
the country.
Report 5000 Casualties
Official denial is given the report
that the temper of Madrid garrison is
hostile. Another official statement |
says the number of victims of the |
fighting at Barcelona is unknown, but |
frontier reports, one of them of al |
legged authoritative inspiration, declare |
the killed or wounded will aggregate |
5000 and that the number of insurrec- |
tionists summarily shot was between
40 and 1875.
A general strike has also been pro-
claimed at Bilboa and in the whole |
mining region of La Rioja. The dis
patch adds that Pueblo Nuevo, a fash
ionable Watering place near Valencia, |
has been entirely destroyed and a |
number of leading inhabitants shot.
Reports from Catalonia say the ad-
vanced political parties have con-
demned King Alfonso and Premier |
Maura to death.
CERBE-;E, France Spanish from
tier), Aug. 1.-The latest news received |
here from Barcelona is that fighting |
between Spanish troops and the revo- |
Mtionary element continues fiercely.
1t is reported forty revolutionaries
have been shot without trial at the
Montiunch fortress, among them being !
Emiliano Iglesias, editor of the Pro-
gresso, the organ of Deputy Leroux, |
chief republican in Barcelona