Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21

, nounceS that there are 1SI French
bankers or f1nanciers against whom jul
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GLIDING IS in Jail.
SPAIN.-The military revolt at Jaca,
garrison town in spain near the
French border, was a brief episode The
dispatches are foggy, but the following
seems fairly established: On December
IL most of the garrison of about 600
mutinied, imprisoned the loyal few and
declared against the Berenguer govern
p1ent. The next day a detachment of
about hundred sailed out for Huesea,
though with what precise object is not
clear. The government acted with re-
markable promptneSs. The detachment
was met en- route and overpowered by
loyal troops, who pushed on to Jaca,
where, rather surprisingly, they en-
countered no opposition, the bulk of
the mutineers meekly surrendering
Forthwith six mutinous officers were
tried by a military court; Two were
sentenced to death and at once shot;
four we're sentenced to life imprison-
ment. 1t is widely conjectured that
simultaneous action at sundry points
similar to that at Jaca had been con-
certed, but failed to materialize, owing
to faint heart or other cause.
But the end of the governments
troubles is not yet At dawn on the
18th the famous Maj. Ramon Franco
alighted from plan at the Cuatro
Viekos Military Airport, near Madrid,
in uniform, wild-eyed. and soon he had
persuaded most of the airport person.
mel of about 500 officers and men to
revolt and proclaim a republic, the
few declining to join being locked up.
Several planes were painted red and
dispatched to scatter over the city in
f1ammatory leaflets which the major
had brought with him. About noon gov
eminent troops, including artillery, ar
rived at the field. and few rounds of
shrapnel brought surrender, the air
personnel being insuflciently armed
ton for land battle. Recognizing the
fiasco, Maj. Franco, 10 other officers
Gncluding two generals) and a me-
chanic mounted four planes and flew to
Lisbon, where the Portuguese govern
ment interned them In granting them
asylum, the latter is naturally embar-
raised. Maj. Franco is quoted as claim
ing that the artillery promised to CO.
operate with him, but proved false.
The Third International may, as the
French press aptly intimates and as the
Duke of Alba, the Spanish minister of
foreign affairs confidently asserts, have
an active oar IN that galley.
Apparently martial law throughout or
through the greater part of Spain en-
sued at once upon the Cuatro Vientos
affair, and still continues.
Our information of the general stu
alton in Spain subsequent to the Jaca
and Scrappy. Close upon the latter
there was a rather serious emeute at
San Sebastian, civilians engaging po-
lice and civil guards, and several deaths
resulting. Similar affairs were doubt
fully reported from Valencia and
Huelva, but except for a number of
strikes, some general, the 10th seems
dent
Striking continued on the 18th wide
ly, with some access of violence. And
numerous rioting clashes, not a few
casualties, contentious being worse in
Alicante and its vicinage, but reports in
dictate extraordinary subsistence of
strikes on the 18th and 10th and very
little violence.
The dispatches are not so clear as to
the total casualties in the disorders
since and including the Jaca affair.
The Jaca total was IL dead and 54
wounded That of Alicante is reported
as IL dead and 80 injured.
Naturally, speculation continues as to
the extent to which the sundry move
ments represent imperfect fulfillment of
proposed concert of action.
X X X
BALKAN INSTRUMENTATION
Is talk Of extension to include Bulgaria
In the recently concluded treaty of
mutual arnity, neutrality and armament
Limitation between Greece and Turkey.
The optimists even imagine ultimate
extension of the treaty to include all
the Balkans. Bulgaria no longer insists
on her old demand for a corridor
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