Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-07-31
Half of Population Has Been Wild
With Blood.
CROWDS
CHARGES
Shoots Down Rebels Amid Cheers Of
Angry Populace.
PARIS PAPERS ON THE STRUGGLE
some Declare Europe Must Keep
Christian spain" Against MoOrs
.--General Islam Up
rising Feared,

pRrp. July 30-The captain general
d, Narcolona has telegraphed to the gem
,.nl staff at Madrid that the revolution
lists have surrendered and that he Is now
the master of the situation. The number
Of victims as A result OF the lighting In
the streets is very high. Twenty-three
buildings we're destroyed by the artillery
The leaders of the rebels are now being
tried by military court martial and sum
marily executed. There is no train ser
vice between Barcelona and Madrid
Barcelona has been a perfect hell. Half
the population is terrorized and the other
half mad with blood. The troops of the
garrison, amid shouts Of approval from the
mod repeatedly rose TO fire on the people
and the work of repression fell on the po-
lice and civil guard. These charged the
revolutionaries and used their firearms
II eey everywhere, but numbers were
against them. AS this dispatch is sent the
streets are IN possession of the barricaded
insurgents The destruction of property
has been great Barcelona is completely
isolated and running short Of food.
Officials Feeling BETTER.
MADRID, July 30.-The news from BARGE
Iona that the cavalry and troops have
gained the upper hand and captured the
main body of insurgents and that only
isolated bands are holding out in the
suburbs, creates the greatest relief in Off
clal circles here. The work Of repression
will rapidly be followed up throughout the
Catalonan captaincy general.
Late last night It was officially an
nounced that the cavalry engaged at BARGE
Iona had succeeded in driving into st.
Martins square the principal band of revo-
lutionsts, against whom the artillery
opened fire. After fighting desperately and
successfully for a long time. the revolu-
tionists were surrounded. Many persons
were killed in the fighting and the sur
vyors surrendered to the troops.
No figures are given of the casualties at
Barcelona
General Marina commander of the Span
ish forces in Morocco, reports that there is
momentary quiet outside Melilla, but no
details of the situation OF the army at
Melina are given out. except that Spanish
reinforcements with a new commanding
general have arrived there.
Fear Islam Uprising.
PARIS. July SO.--The news Of the terrible
defeat inflicted on the Spanish forces by
Moors at Melila and the confirmation Of
the extent of the insurrection in Spain
causes apprehension here. The triumph
OF the Moors in the Riff country perhaps
will inflame all OF Islam and lead to an
uprising in Algeria and the Soudan. The
attack upon French troops at Coom-
Bechar the other day is now regarded
here as a direct result OF the events on
the Riff coast. Some OF the Paris news
papers, therefore boldly suggest that in
self-interest it is the duty of Europe to
come to the rescue.
The Eclair says 1t is impossible for
Europe to bow before the insolent, tri-
umphant Moors, and that Christian civil
izatlon cannot afford to allow Spain to be
beaten. on the other hand. many news
papers declare that the Melilla disaster
recalls the muddle and incapacity OF every
department IN the Spanish government
during the Cuban war These newspapers
advise the government at Madrid to make
virtue Of necessity by promptly ending
the adventure, as otherwise It will put ar
end 10 the Spanish government
The Marquis Del NUM-. the Spanish am
bassador at Paris, has transmitted a note
TO he French government, formally de-
claring that the Riff campaign was no
undertaken with the object of conquest
but solely to punish the Moors for theil
attack on SpaniaIds and their affront tC
tho Melilla garrison
The Spanish ambassador in an interview
today attributes the upheaval at BARGE
Iona solely TO the anarchists, and he Il
confident It win be promptly suppressed
He explains that the government intends
TO satisfy the popular demand regarding
obligatory military service and that 1t hai
already introduced bill in the senate foi
that purpose.
women FiGht with Fury.
CEBERE. France Iyia spanish Frontier)
July SO,-All the reports received here from
spain confirm the terrible fury Of tn
women throughout Catalonia At BARGE
IONA they fought behind the barricade
with the men, urging them to fight to tn
death Everywhere they resisted searche
by the gendarmes for recruits for the re
serves, barring the doors OF their house
aud firing at the soldiers from the win
dows AT Casa de La Saliva the population
sun ounded and disarmed the civil guar
aud locked up the officials In the barracks
Not only at Barcelona, but throughout tn
province, church property was the specia
ouJect OF the popular fury, Horrible sto
res are reeounted OF the mercilesS fashio
ia which the churches and converts wer
sacked and burned The inmates OF IN
institutions We're driven into the fields L
cries Of Down with the church"
AZ GranOllers, sixteen miles from BARGE
lo( A' two converts we're burned
~ Amer the Carmelite convent wa
burned and looted The sisters narroWl
escaped with their lives
The Madrid authorities fear the arrivs
OF Alexandra LerouX In Spain. who is o
hs way TO Europe from Brazil to plac
himself at the head OF the revolution II
holds the Workmen's organizations In IN
hollow OF his hand While a member q
Ias Cortes in 1903 Senor LerouK broke Wit
-ae party because Il Joined with the Cats
lunan soldalists, which included the Cal
Lists. Who he opposed on the ground this
they stood for the maintenance OF the NOR
aIchst regime and clerical action. Las