The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-30
STILL GLOOMY.
Spanish Situation at Home and
Abroad Full of Alarm.
Revolution at Barcelona Has
Been Partially Subdued.
is GREAT
Women Fought Behind the Bar
ricades With the Men.
MOors Occupy Impregnable Posi-
tiOn With 10000 Men.

The Spanish crises at home and
abroad continue to present many
alarming features with Barcelona still
in the throes of a revolutionary move
ment and an army of 10000 Moors
pressing Spain's defeated and exhaust
| ed forces in Morocco.
The reports from Barcelona are
| ominously meager and from round
| about quarters. But the revolutionary
movement appears to have passed its
climax. Government troops are now
reported to have the upper hand. The
artillery has been used with merciless
effect, driving back and capturing the
main bodies of rioters and driving the
remnants to outlying sections. The
scattered fragments of information,
coming through Madrid and frontier
points, are doubtless censored and
lacking exactness; but they give de-
tails of a bloody conflict between
$1,000 armed revolutiOnists and the
Spanish artillery and cavalry.
From many interior points come re-
ports of riot and incendiariSm- But
the movement is without apparent
central organization or. a leader. In
the north there are fears that Don
Jaime, the Carlist leader, will take ad-
vantage of the situation by renewing
the Carlist movement against the dy-
announces that the captain general at
Barcelona telegraphs to the govern
ment that he is now master of the
situation, the revolutionists having
surrendered.
Spanish warships have come to the
relief of the defeated army in Moroc-
co, and is reported to be shelling the
Moor force The battlefield where the
Spaniards lost 3, 900 is a vast graveyard
and the Spanish medical and head
quarters equipment is demoralized by
unpreparedness for its big task.
Rebels Have Surrendered.
Madrid July 3O.-The captain gen
eral of Barcelona has telegraphed to
the general staff at Madrid that the
revolutionists have surrendered and
that he is now the master of the situ-
alton. The number of victims as
result of the fighting in the streets is
very high.
Twenty-three buildings were de-
stroyed by the artillery. The leaders
of the rebels are now being tried by
military court martial and summarily
executed. There is no train service
between Barcelona and Madrid.
Women Fought FIIriOusly.
Cerbere, France-Spanish Frontier,
July 3O.-All the reports received here
from Spain confirm the terrible fury Of
the women throughout Catalonia. At
Barcelona they fought behind the bar
ricades with the men, urging them to
fight to the death. Everywhere they
cruits for the reserves, barring the
doors of their houses and firing at the
soldiers from the windows.
At Casa De La Saliva the population
surrounded and disarmed the civil
guards and locked up the officials in
the barracks.
Not only at Barcelona but through
out the province church property was
the special object of the popular fury.
Horrible stories are recOunted of the
merciIess fashion in which the churches |
and converts were sacked and burned. |
The inmates of the institutions were
driven into the fields to cries of down
with the church"
At GraniIeres, 16 miles from BARGE !
Iona, two converts were burned.
At Amcer the Calemite convenant |
was looted and burned. The Sisters
narrowly escaped with their lives.
The Madrid authorities fear the ar
rival of Alexandra LIE ReuX in Spain |
" no is on his way TO Europe from Bra
ziI to place himself at the head of the |
He holds the wOrkmen's |
While a member OF the cOrtes in 1903
Senior LIE Reux broke with the party |
because it Joined with the Catalonian
soIiGarists which included the Carhsts,
whom he opposed on the ground that
hey stood for the maintenance of
nonarchisE regime and clerical action.
Last year after series OF bitter ar
icIes adopted against the government,
y
,risonment but fed to Brazil. Despite
lis condemnation of the republicans, he
yas reelected to parliament at the last
,1ectiOns and is now on his way home
gain to assume leadership. The gov
.rnrnent has issued orders that he be
arrested Immediately on landing on
spanish soil
situation Still Grave.
san Sebastian, Spain, via Hendaye,
france. July 30.-Oficial reports receiv-
ID here today from Madrid indicate that
he situation in the CatalOnian pro-
-inces is still grave. The agitation in
he Biscayan provinces is increasing.
Taptain General Augiler, accompanied
" his staff left Madrid today for
Bilbao.
Smelling the NIOOrs.
Madrid. July 3O-Special dispatches
eceived here shortly after noon today
rom MeliIla say the Spanish cruiser
Iumancia is now shelling the heights
# Mount Gueriga which is swarming
With Moors.
Preaching Holy War.
Cel,ta. Morocco. July 30.-The natives
r the region surrounding this seaport
re preparing to join their fighting
rethren or the heights before Mehlla.
. holy war is being preached from s
,euta to Moulmuga and the whole coun-
~ is ahame with fanaticism. The
'csf+iou Of the Moors on Mount Gueruga
where So 0CG warriors are concentrated
: considered to be impregnable-