The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-25
FIRE OF KITCHEN,
ANDN0T OF BAT TIE
Head Of Battenbergs
a w alter Not So
Long Ago.
SPAIN RESENTS
HIS INTRUSION
Country Torn With Discussions
and Revolution Is Imminent,
Which May Result in New
Republic of Iberia-Vati-
can Disturbed by Re-
ligious Strife.
Special to The Times-pispatch. ]

Especial to The Times-Dispatch.1
Bone, July 24.-CBy Marconi Wire
less.)-The situation between the Vat
lean, on the one hand. and Spain and
Portugal, on the other. over religious
and political affairs is growing worse
from day to day.
The position is the moro significant
when one takes into consideration the
fact that the helm of the Papacy Is
dinal. who would like nothing better
than closely to Identify the Holy See
with his country. Reports received by
the Vatican depict, of course, internal
conditions in Spain and Portugal as
very dangerous, there being. according
to these informants, imminent danger
of a contemporaneous revolution In
the two countries which would bring
about the formation of joint repub-
lie. TO be called "The United States OF
Iberia"
Hope In Don jaime.
Here ii is hoped that salvation
against this may be found in Don
Jaime, son Of Don Carlos, who. it Is
believed, would be able to rally about
him sufficient number OF adherents to
master events and preserve Spain from
becoming an anti-Catholic republic.
More interesting still are particulars
received at the Vatican in regard to
the attitude OF King Alfonso and the
influence which the British court and
the Battenberg family exercise over
him. pushing him towards closer re-
lations with England and France. AS
one result of this the King signed the
decree regarding the religious congre-
cations, and especially those expelled
from France in order 70 propitiate the
republic, and issued another concern
ing non-Catholic worship to please tho
Anglicans. who have swamped Madrid
and the court since the Battenherg
Princess became Queen OF Spain In
deed, since the marriage OF the kins
twenty-five Anglican chapels ana
allowed to open.
What. however, is considered un-
precedented by the Vatican and by the
rigid Catholic nobility Is the circum-
stance that Princess Henry of Batten-
berg, mother of the Queen, should have
established herself at court with
suite. all composed of Anglicans and
with an Anglican chaplain, although
her daughter, nominally at least. is a
SdlnOllC.
Queen Mother May Retire.
No one can be surprised If. after this
the Queen Mother decided to retire to
her castle of Miramar. at st. seba tian.
The attitude of the Queen Mother will
be taken up by the. women of the
court. who. besides objecting to the
institution Of Protestant chapel at
court. feel indignant that the royal
house. the noblest in Europe. hereto
fore surrounded by the best and most
aristocratic families OF Spain. which
means the world, should be monopo-
lized and controlled by Battenbergs,
the founder of which house in the not
distant past was waiter.
There are other nobility of recent
date" say the Spaniards bitterly,
which must be respected because they
won their titles In the fire of battle.
but the head of the Battenberg house
only experienced the fire OF the
kitchen"