Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-30
Spanish Warships Shelling the
Heights Overlooking the City.
REBELS LAY DOWN THEIR ARMS
Leaders of Barcelona Riot Being
Tried by CourtMartial and
Summarily Executed.
Great Relief Felt at
Madrid.

SPAN Crisis at home and
abroad continues TO present nanv
alarming features, with BARGE
Iona still in the tlroes OF a rcvo-
lutlonary movement and an army
OF 10000 Moors pressing Spain's
defeated and exhausted forces in
Morocco.
The reports from Barcelona
are ominouslv mcager and from
roundabout quarters. But the
revolutionary movement appears
to have passed its climax. Gov
ernment troops are now reported
to have the upper hand. The ar
tillery has been used with mercl-
less effect, driving back and cap
turing the main bodies OF rioters
and driving the remnants to out
lying sections. The scattered
fragments OF information coming
through Madrid and frontier
points are doubtless censored and
lacking in exactness, but they
give details OF bloody conflict be-
tween 10000 armed revolution
lists and the Spanish artillery and
cavalry.
A late dispatch from Madrid
announces that the captain gen
eral at Barcelona telegraphs to
the government that he is now
master of the situation, the revo-
lutionists having surrendered. He
gives the number of victims as
very great. Twenty-three build
ings were destroyed by artillery.
The leaders of the rebels are be-
ing tried by military court-mar-
tial and summarily executed.
Spanish warships have come to
the relief OF the defeated army in
Morocco. and are reported to be
shelling the Moorish forces. The
battlefield where the Spaniards
lost 5000 is vast graveyard.
and the Spanish medical and
headquarters equipment is de-
moralized by unpreparedness for
its gigantic task.
PARIS. Jul. 30.-The news of the ter
rible defeat inflicted on the Spanish
forces by Moors a. Melila and the con-
firmation of the extent of the insurrec-
in here
The triumph of the Moors in the Riff
country perhaps. will intiame all of Islam
and lead to an uprising in Algeria and the
Sudan. The attack upon French troops
at Colon b. Bechar .he other day Is now
regarded here as direct reorecussion of
the events on the Riff coast. Sorae of the
Paris newspapers. tllfrefcTe. boldly sug-
gest thai in seIf-interest il is the duty
Of Europe TO come to the rescue.
The Eclair says it IS impossible for Eu-
rore to bow before the insolent trium-
phant Moors, and that Christian civliZa-
ton cannot afford to allow Spain to he
beaten On the other hand. many news
naners declare that the Melilla disaster
recalls the muddle and incaoacity OF
every depa rtment in the Spanish govern
ment during the Cuban war. These news
papers advise the government at Madrid
to make virtue of necessity by prompt
ly ending the adventure, as otherwise IL
will put an end to the Spanish govern
ment.
Spain's Note to France.
The Marquis del Muni. the Spanish
amba ssador at Paris. has transmitted
a note to the French government for
malIy declaring that the Riff campaign
was not undertaken with the object
of conquest. but solely TO punish the
Moors for their attack Spanards
and their affront 10 the Melilla garri-
son.
The Spanish ambassador in an inter
view today attributes the upheaval a
Barcelona solely to the anarchists. and
he is confident that it will be promptly
suppressed.
He explains that the government in
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