Evening star., 1936-07-18
Reported Uprisings
in Spain Denied
Officially.
INSURCENT FORCES
FACE GIBRALTAR
President Manuel Azana
in National Palace
for PrecautiOn.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Radical Front pictorious In
Spanish election February is. Cen
erdl amnesty decreed for $4,000
Lettists, phose places in Jail haDe
now been taken by 1000 Fdscists,
violently opposed to movement OF
Spanish government lettwards.
Unrest reached high point early
this Ueek DIlen Jose CdlUo Sotelo,
ntondrchist leader, tUds 1ssaSSindted
by group OF men tuearing Assault
Guard uniforms.
Army and political police leaders
split ouer support for or operthroD
of Left government. Political prob
lem complicated by differences in
ranks of the Lettists themselves.
+ BULLETIN.
HENDAYE, France, July l8 (H).
Reports from Spain tonight in
sisted that a rebellion which broke
out in Spanish Morocco today had
spread to Spain itself and that
garrisons in cities throughout An
dalusia we're in revolt.
(Copyright. 1885, by the Associated Press
MADRID, July 18.-Army plane
bombed rebellious troops in Morocco
the ministry of the interior announces
today, in quelling a sudden revol
which broke out at Melilla and spreat
to other parts of the Spanish zone.
The undersecretary of state VIII
made the announcement denied wide
spread reports that there had been
similar revolt on the Spanish main
land, but acknowledged that Ceuta
Morocco, just opposite Gibraltar, wa
in the hands of rebels.
Fighting in Spain Reported.
(Reports reaching French borde
points, but not confirmed from an!
official source, said there was flghtin!
at a number OF Spanish cities. in
cluding Cadiz, Sevilla and Barcelona
Direct advices from Barcelona, how.
ever, said that Catalonian City wa!
calm.)
Most of the bombing was at Ceuts
and Melilla, the ministry of the in
terror statement said.
In an official communique the gov
srnment said:
"A new criminal attack on the
republic has been frustrated. The
government did not wish to address
the country until it learned exactly
what had happened and put into ef-
feet urgent, inexorable measures to
combat it.
Part OF the army representing
Spain In Morocco has risen in arms
against the republic. revolving against
its own country and performing q
shameful criminal act of rebellion
against the legitimately constituted
power.
THE government declares that the
has been limited exclusively
to several cities in the Moroccan pro.
tectorate zone and that no one, alb
no one on the peninsula (SpaiE
itself joined this absurd scheme.
"On the contrary, Spaniards have
reacted unanimously and with pro.
found indignation against this shame
ful act which has been frustrated a
birth.
The government is pleased to an
nounce that heroic centers and loya
elements are resisting sedition in the
military bases of the protectorate. de-
Tending with honor their uniforms, The
prestige of the army and the authority
Of the republic.
Government Dominates"
"At the present time the forces or
land, sea and in the air of the re-
public, except for the absurd excep.
tions mentioned before, remain faith
full to the fulfillment of their duties,
directing themselves against the reb-
els to quell the mad and shameful
movement with all energy.
THE government of the republic
(See REVOLT, Page 81