The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-29
UPRISING
BRINGS BLOODSHED
Barcelona Is Center Of Disturbances and Artillery Is Used
in the Streets in an Effort to Quell the Rioers---
Army at Melilla Has Bloody Battle
With the Moors.

Madrid, July 2s.-The revolution in
Catalonia has reached a serious stage.
There is much b!oodshed. Artillery
has been employed in the streets of
/ Barcelona to quel the outbreaks. The
city Is terror-stricken The revolu-
tionists are reported to be fighting des-
perately behind barricades The troops
include mounted artillery and the de-
fenses. of the rebels have been raked
with shot.
King Alfonso hastened back to
Madrid from San Sebastian today and
issued decree providing martial
law and suspension of constitutional
guarantees throughout Spain. Orders
have been given to the governors Of
provinces to crush the revolution at
any cost without hesitation and with
out pity. Today marks a black chap
ter in spains history, for there was
tragedy both at home and abroad. The
army at Melilla had a bloody battle
with the Moors, which, though the
victory was won by the Spaniards, the
cost was q officers and 200 Spaniards
killed and wounded. The exact esti-
mate of the dead and wounded in the
clashes between the troops and rebels
in Catalonia is impossible owing to the
rigid censorship and the government
has not fixed a total. The government
admits, however, that rioters have
been killed and wounded in several
localities, including Barcelona, Alcoy
and Calaberra.
There has been rioting at Saragossa,
Vendrell Rio ia, Port Bou and Liam
son and a general strike was declared
at Biscaya. There has been much de-
struction of property. The center of
the rebellion is Barcelona to which
place the government is rushing extra
troops.
Defeat Reported. -@
dispatch tonight said that the
Barcelona revolutionists had been de-
feated as a result Of desperate charges
by the troops. Later fighting started |
again, the artillery using heavy guns
to demolish the barricades At Bar
celona no life is safe and proclama-
tion 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 that
the situation was exceedingly grave.
and that the rebellion must be re-
pressed with an iron hand, as the
catalonians were struggling to engulf i
all Spain in a revolution.
The note says. The government +
has acquired proof that the agitaturs
seek at all cost to produce a seditious
movement throughout Spain of a char
acter clearly revolutionary, WITH the1
object of preventing the movement of
troops and to block the action of the H,
government, especially SO far rs it
the campaign at Melilla. The
has ordered the governors j
If the provinces concerned to employ
he most stringent measures and to
order at any COST
The hostility of the people against T.
he Mnroccan campaign, which has
,een followed by widespread disturb
lnces, is based on resentment that the
lation has been plunged in foreign :,
var and that the nations sons are be- ,,
ng sacrificed merely because of oppo- :
ition to a private mining undertake :
n.y.. The poorer classes from which
he regiments are chiefly drawn are
bitter, complaining that the
IAN who can pay $500 is exempt from
Military service. v
Touching Scenes.
The greatest antagonism has been
reused by the mobilization OF the re-
erves- Many of the men in the re- +
erve forces have large families with
ut means Of support other than what p
aey themselves can earn. Touching e
eenes occurred when the poor. work o
len We're called to the colors They Il
andered distractedly about the a.
reefs leading their children whom S
nally they were forced to abandon. N