Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-21
SPAIN TAKES
DRASTIC STEPS.
Conditions Somewhat Improved.
Troops Still Patroling the Streets.
Situation in Hand.

MADRID, Sept. 21.-The drastic step:
taken by the govern ment to suppress
the revolutionary movement have some
what improved the situation in Spair
today. The constitutional guarantee!
have not yet been restored, and troop!
are still patrollipg the streets of the
capital, but there is no disorder, anC
tina ministry Of the interior gives ou
the statement that it is believed matter.
are now we'll in hand. Favorable re-
ports have also, it is announced, beer
received from all important provincia
cities.
Paris. Sept. 21.-Violent riotinf
broke out at Valencia today in connec
ton with the general strike, according
to private advice from Madrid. The
crowd stoned q battalion of cavalry
which opened fire. At least one i:
known to hava been killed and severa
hundred. The rioting is still in progress:
and it is believed here that it is much
worse than the dispatches say.
Hendaye, France, Sept. 2I.-Thougl
there seems to be some temporary
modification today in the seriousness,
oithe Spanish strike situation, uuoffi,
cial advices from across the frontier are
far from bearing out the optimistic
statements the Madrid government is
issuing.
1t is noteworty that despite the Off.
cial assertion that order prevails in
most districts, the constitutional guar
antees have not been restored, and that
the whole army still remain under
arms.
With the government as anxious
as it unquestionably is to convince
the outside world of its ability TO
handle the situation easily, it is a
certainty that those precautions will
no be continued moment after the
considers If safe to relax
them.
By arresting the unionist leaders and
threatening the rank and file with the
1irect consequences unless they
remain at work. the authorities
have succeeded in forcing a calling off
of the general strike at Madrid and
Bilbaa, though at the former city the
building trades unionists are out to the
number of 10000 in defiance OF the
governments orders.
Except for Madrid and Bslbao, the
strike tie.up remains as tight as ever
in most of the larger cities, and in the
majority of them fights between the
strikers and the police are reported to
be constantly occurring. Petween the
governments censorship and then cut.
ting OF telegraph wires by the strikers.
communication is SO disorgapized that
it is impossible even to estimate the
but there is no doubt that
The death roll is already heavy. The
prisoners everywhere are filled to over
flowing, and more arrests are being
made continuously.
Altogether, the number of political
prisoners taken since the strikes broke
out runs into the thousands. The gov
ernment is still so badly swamped with
the tosk OF fighting the strike and
making the arrests that that it has not
even made an attempt to give hear
ing to any of its captives, but if it def.
nitely gains tho upper hand, they will
be tried before the military caurt mar
tials which can be relied upon for con-
victlons and sentences, and the usual
batch Of shooting banishments are sure
to follow.
The opinion prevails here that the
throne is by no means safe, even for
tbe moment, and that the general
movement to which the present out !.
break is merely an incident, will iuev.
itably culminate in the monarchy's
overthrow in the end.