The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-08-03
MARTIAL LAW DECLARED
THROUGHOUT SPAIN
Mob Cries 4Down With the King
---Tr0Ops Join Revolt.
LOSSES HEAVY AT MELILLA
Revolutionists Active in Catalonia and
the Spanish G svernment Adopted
Serious Measures For Repression
-Barricades Demolished.

London, England. Martial law has
been declared throughout the whole
of Spain, and in Catalonia, where the
troubles are clearly revolutionary
in character, the severest measures Of
repression were enforced.
The riots at Barcelona assumed
the character of civil war. The riot
ers' barbados have been destroyed
by artillery, churches have been
burned, bridges blown up, and rail-
ways dynamited. News of serious
losses to the Spanish arms at Melilla
add fresh fuel to the domestic confia-
grafton
A Madrid !. dispatch, telegraphed
from the French frontier, says breach
of discipline is the order of the day in
the Spanish ranks. Both at Melilla
and in the Madrid barracks four or
five soldiers were shot daily for insu-
bordination. 1t is also declared that
one whole battalion refused to fight
the other day at Melilla and fled,
leaving its colonel, who refused to
follow its example, to be killed.
When several companies were Or
dered to the firing line at Melilla the
soldiers retorted by asking the officers
to go first The officers were helpless
and had to place themselves ahead of
their companies, which accounts for
so many of the officers being killed.
The London Times publishes dis
patch as follows: 1.-THE exploits of the
Barcelona mob, which coincide with
further heavy fightingat Melilla, have
caused general disgust here 1t is
feared that Barcelona, where anar-
chism thrives upon the large foreign
proletariat, may give the signal for
activity by anarchist committees else
where"
The significance of this dispatch,
which had to be framed to pass the
strict censorship, must be read be-
tween the lines. For instance it is
suggested that success" should be
substituted for " exploits and "alarm"
for disgust.
Socialists Fan the Flames.
Madrid, Spain.-The revolution in
Catalonia has reached a most serious
stage. The Socialists and other ex-
tremists are tanning the flames of
revolution. Already the cry is heard,
Down with the King!"
There is much bloodshed, and ar
tillery has been employed in the
streets of Barcelona to quell the out
breaks. The city is terror-stricken.
The revolutionists fought desperately
behind barricades. The troops in
clude mounted artillery, and the de-
lenses OF the rebels have been raked
with shot
King Alfonso FASTENED back to Ma
drid from San Sebastian and at once
issued a decree prOclaiming martial
law and the suspension of constitu-
tional guarantees throughout Spain.
The King was wildly booted in the
streets on his arrival, and the Gov
eminent Is doing its utmost to min
inlize the effect OF the crushing re-
Verse suffered by the Spanish forces
at Melilla. The King reached here
in time to learn that part of his army
at Melilla had had a bloody battle
with the Moors, which, though the
final victory was the Spaniards, cost
the lives of twenty-one officers and a
total of two hundred Spaniards killed
or wounded.
Fighting in Morocco.
Madrid, Spain. -Fighting between
the Spanish forces and Moors was re-
sumed outside Melilla General Pin
tos and several officers were killed.
Official notices posted on the bull
1etin boards here confirm the death
of General Pintos and say that the
Spanish losses are important, but no
figures are given. They declare also
that the Spanish soldiers finally re-
pulsed the Moors and occupied new
advanced positions. The battle is
described as Spanish victory
Every supplementary detail of the
battle of July 2S shows that the Span
ish situation was most grave The !
Moors ambushed a Spanish column in
the Alter ravine, killing and wound
ing 400 men. The shattered frag-
ments of the column were able to es-
cape only under the protection of the
Spanish gunboat Martin Alonzo Pin
:zon, and the Melilla forts, which fired
2000 rnI1ndo