New Britain herald., 1925-06-05
Travellers Tell of Dis- covery of Plan to Blow up Royalty by Means of Bombs On Railroad Tracks.
STUDENTS SAID TO BE
 LEADERS IN ATTEMPT

Perpignan, France, June 5. tAP) Fourteen persons have been ar- rested in Barcelona In connection with the bomb plots against King Alfonso, according to travellers ar- irving over the frontier who say news of the plots Is being suppress ed in the Spanish newspapers.
 The travellers say the police also found a map showing the location of a bomb under one of the numer- ous tunnels on the route to Madrid.
 Several days ago, they declare, a bomb was exploded which seriously damaged the palace of the Marquise De Castell at Barcelona, the day after a ball held there In honor or the king.
 Those arrested were young students and functionaries, mem- hers of an extremist Catalan group which had been camouf1aged as literary and touring association. The prisoners denied any connection with the plots.
 The bomb which was intended to blow up the royal train between Barcelona and Madrid is said to have been large one, weighing TO hounds, arranged to be exploded by an electric mechanism. It was found several miles outside the city near the tracks of the Madrid line.
 Two other plots are reported one to blow up the entrance to the haii where Alfonso presided at a meet ing last Sunday, and the other TO kill him during the return journey to the capital. .
 The bomb found on the rails has been placed in museum here' ana the king took time from his sched- u,ed program to view 1t. It IS or considerable size, and had been planned so that, but for the vigi- lance of guards, 1t would have been exploded by the impact Of the royal train.
 The attempt at the meeting hall also was frustrated by discovery or the plot shortly before his majesty appeared. The delay in returning 10 Madrid is said to have been be- cause of the discovery of the third plot.
 The kings reception here has been extremely quiet. and there have been few decorations in his honor.
 Barcelona, the principal city in Catalonia, has been the center of the Catalan movement for independence from Spain. It was also the seat Of the military revolt under General Primo de Rivera which in Septem- Der 1923 overthrow the cabinet and established the military directory now ruling the country.
 Primo Dc Rivera has repeatedly voiced his intention to permit the restoration of political form or government. The state of siege de- cIared following the De Rivera coup d'etat was lifted only last month III a decree by King Alfonso which de- clared public order and personal safety had been restored and con- stitutional guarantees re-established.
 Primo De Rivera is now in Mo- rocco, where he went early this week to renew the campaign against the rebels with an attempt to recap ture the naval base of Alhucemas
 London. June 5 (AP)--A dispatch to the Evening News from point on the Franco Spanish border says 1t is reported that bomb was found in Barcelona cathedral just before King Alfonso attended mass there. The dispatch says four priests were arrested.
 This dispatch also reported that bomb exploded outside Barce- Iona hotel the day after ball given there in honor of King Alfonso,