Evening star., 1936-07-19
Government Is
Reformed by
BarriO.
SHIPS, PLANES
ORDERED OUT
Strikes Are Called
If Martial Law
Is Decreed.

BACKGROUND
Fascist and n,onarchist elements
in Spanish army resenting suppress
siDe measures taken by Spuin's
Lettist government, in po,cer as r.
suit OF radical fronts uictory IN
February IS election. General am
nesty for Socialists and Com
1nunists folloDed poll Dtctory. TuDo
thousand FascistS hare taken place
of $4,000 of their enemies in Span.
ish jnils.
Unrest in Spain heightened this
meek Uhen men dressed as Assault
Guards aSsdSSindted Jose Cairo
Sotelo, n1onnrchiSt leader.
BY the Associated Press
MADRID, July 19 Sunday The
Spanish cabinet of Premier Santiago
Casares Quiroga, harassed by mill
tary revolt in Spanish Morocco and the
Canary Islands and outbreaks in
Spain itself. resigned early today.
Diego Martinez Barrio. chief Of the
Republican Union and for brief time
President of Spain, Immediately or
ganized a new cabinet, containing five
members Of the previous group.
The resignation of the Casares Qui-
foga government came only few
hours after it had sent air and naval
forces against the rebellious soldiers
In the two Spanish possessions and
had claimed complete control of the
internal uprising, which it is said CEN
tered at Seville.
Backed by Labor Front.
The Leftist Casares Quiroga cabi-
het-installed May 13, when former
Premier Manuel Azana was raised to
the presidency of the republic-had
won the support of solid labor front
against the revolt.
Socialist, Communist and Syndicalist
leaders had ordered general strikes in
any places where martial law was
proclaimed contrary to government
orders.
Reports from Tangier, interna-
tionalized zone in Morocco said 10000
rebels. headed by Gen. Francisco
Franco, military governor of the Ca
nary Islands, held complete control
OF Spanish Morocco.
An unconfirmed dispatch received
at Oran, Algeria, related, however,
that Franco had been arrested, two
generals killed and 80 other officers
seized at Tetuan, capital of Spanish
Morocco.
This report stated loyal soldiers,
Joined by naval aviation forces,
which refused to join the rebels, made
o successful counter attack.
Border Is Closed.
British authorities at Gibraltar. on
Che southern tip Of the Iberian Pen
insula. closed the Spanish border after
an encounter at La Linea. Spain, in
which one person was killed and at
least 20 were injured.
Reports received at Gibraltar said
10000 troops Of the Spanish Foreign
Legion were participating in the Mo-
roccan revolt.
Spanish government airplanes
bombed the cities of Melilla and
Ceuta, Spanish Morocco. Warships
had been sent to aid in attempting
TO crush the rebellion across the mar
row strait separating Spain from
North Africa.
The civil governor of the Canary
Islands informed the government at
Madrid he and the civil guard chief
at Las Palmas were beseiged in his
palace.
Admitting the revolt had spread to
Spain proper, the government de-
clared it had crushed a rebellion
movement among soldiers at Seville,
important southern city.
Gen. Franco was relieved of his
command by cabinet decision, along
with Gen Queipo de Ilano. who the
government accused of leading the
outbreak at Seville.
French sources provided uncon-
firmed reports that fighting had oc-
CURED at Cadiz, Burgos and BARGE
iona, as well as in Seville.
The administration announced all
eoldiers implicated in the revolt would
be granted immediate and indefinite
home leave. The move was seen as
IN attempt to weaken the rebel forces
Rebellious Elements Checked.
An official note said the public
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