Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-23
SPANISH SITUATION TENSE.
Crisis Expected When Zamora Resigns
to Seek Regular Election.

MADRID, July % (P).-With Seville
under martial law as the result of dis
orders in which II persons were killed,
the tenseness of SPANS political situ-
alton increased today as the nation
looked forward to a change in govern
ment next week.
~ was predicted that when the As
sembly is formally constituted. Monday
or Tuesday, the cabinet would immedi-
ately resign. Forecasts were that the
Parliament would choose Alcala zamora
as President-he now holds that post
provisionally-and that he would sum-
mon either Manuel Azana. present war
minister or Alexandra Derroux, foreign
minister, to the premiership.
The seriousness of the situation in
Seville was made clear when martial
law was pronounced only half an hour
after Miguel Maura, minister of the in
terror, announced he would oppose call
ing in the military authorities.
Minister Is Optimistic.
Despite the subsequent developments
NAduAd OptlIIllSl1C dDOuL Tie
governments ability to suppress such
uprising as the Syndicalist strike out
breaks in Seville.
This anarchist affair is weak" he
said Il will peel them like an orange. ("
Socialist Deputy Theldomiro Minnen-
DEE of Austuias declared the situation
was most grave. II should not be sur
prised to see republican military die
tatorship emerge" he said. Il believe
Hn sa1t f-F- I'LL
at whom the Syndical1sts are aiming,
should resign
The government movement against
Syndicalists continued and hundreds
were arrested.
The cabinet decided to withhold ap-
plication of the So-callsd national de-
tense decree aimed against strikers.
Foreign Minister Lerroux said, because
the situation lacks extreme gravity.
Dissension Hinted.
Police dispersed a group in the
fashionable prado without incident
Director of Safety Galarza said the
quiet in Madrid apparently was owing
to dissenSion in syndicalist ranks as
authorities were receiving many letters
from syndicaliStS protesting the violence
and "unpatriotiSm" of their colleagues.
The government and telephone COM
pany announced the legitimate period
of the telephone strike was ended and
strikers would be dismissed from the
company's rolls and others hired.
The proclamation declaring martial
law in Seville set forth that troops
would fire on the slightest warning, and
that, therefore, residents had best keep
off the streets and out of balconies.
Resistance to the military will result in
immediate court-martial The troops
were ordered to use heavy artillery to
destroy houses from which sniping has
been going on.
Franco Warns Cabinet.
Ramon Franco. aviator and Assembly
member, said the provisional cabinet
must understand 1.-The real aims Of the
republican revolution have not been
completed"
He predicted that if the cabinet re-
fused to take stock of this "a new vio-
lent revolution will surge from beneath. -"
The minority group of the Assembly
insisted that the government explain
the reasons for extraordinary measures
taken.
The first day of the governments
new iron-flsSed policy saw little i'm
provement inst the troubled labor situa-
ton. although some think the govern
ment's order to troops to shoot first
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