| Show SITUATION I IN I I SPAIN SAID TO TOBE BE IMPROVING Great Slaughter in Barcelona but the Rebels Were Fi Fl Finally Finally nally Subdued PROGRESS OF THE WAR WARIN IN AFRICA UNKNOWN APPREHENSION IN MADRID THAT WHITE FLAG OF PRETENDER IS TO BE RAISED IN SPAIN Madrid July 39 The government re ro reports ports from Catalonia indicate that the situation continues to improve Both King mag Alfonso Alon o and aad Premier Maura Mauta were satisfied that the worst Is ie over that the rebellion in Barcelona has been quelled and that order soon will wilt be lie restored re tore Nevertheless 8 to be on the Ute soft safe side large bodies bodI of troops are being belR hurried to the scene cene Private Privat dispatches leaking out through the frontier Indicate that there has been great gre t slaughter lau at Barcelona It is understood that the king greatly regretted the necessity of using artillery but yielded to arguments of his cabinet ministers tera that halfway measures or temporization might prove fatal There Thera was great loss to property especially churches monasteries and convents against a n t which the fury of the mob was centered There is ie some ome apprehension that the followers of Don Jaime the pretender may attempt to raise the white flag of the The leaders who maintain a 8 military and political organization in northern Spain are being closely ck sely watched HOSTILE TO THE KING KINGS S Madrid Populace Sympathize With Those Who Oppose the War Paris July 38 Spanish exterior fours have haft fallen from 98 M to 91 94 9 during the past ten days and Rio have de declined declined dined 60 GO francs Mail Kail advices from Madrid confirm the report of the hostile demonstration which greeted the king on his arrival from San Ban Sebastian and nil nd the rioting which followed Troops Troop are constantly marching marchl through the streets with the evident intention of overawing the Ute pop population population population Frantic mothers vainly ba be the war Wa office ethos for or news of their sons seas fighting bUD in Africa The be only re reto rew w to te each eh is 15 Yen wilt te b he Is ie killed A dispatch to the Matin from Gerona gives an interview with a refugee who fled fod Barcelona Barcelon Wednesday There is hi terror and awful tragedy at Barcelona he be said On Monday I saw barricades thrown up by rioters working like mad rued I saw a charge by gendarmes their headlong rush on the barbed wire stretched before ore the barrio barn cades de the fall of their horses the death of the riders almost almo t all of whom were by the revolutionists Convents Set on Fire Prom From om Monday Mondy to Wednesday as many as fifteen convents were set on fire and the glare of the flames lighted L up the s sea MIl a and terrorized the population don tion Th civil guard and police were hissed and jeered everywhere but food and cigars were offered to the soldiers who repeatedly refused refusal refu eJ to fire The people acclaimed the soldiers L with cries of Long live Jive the army anny I Down with the war office and they were followed about the streets by byI I crowds of women who shook their hands and embraced the necks of their hor horses es I r crying You will not go SO to war warr r General Brandies was cheered to the 1 echo while 2000 women waved their handkerchiefs at troops on their way 10 ie 0 I I 1 Gerona Barcelona I carry cam a vision of frenzied fighting in the streets of the activity of the devoted Red Cross Cress of churches burned of altars altar and im images Images Images ages wrecked and the flight of monks mocks and nuns to escape the fury of the mobs FOUGHT LIKE AMAZONS Women of Barcelona Behind the Bar Barricades Barricades Barricades With the Men France Spanish frontier July SO AH the reports received here bere from Spain confirm the terrible fury of the women throughout Catalonia At r Barcelona they fought behind the barr barri barricades cades with the men urging them to fight to the death Everywhere they resisted searches by gendarmes for recruits for forthe forthe forthe the reserves barring the doors of their t houses hou es and firing at the soldiers from S the windows d At Cam Caa asa De La Salva the population e surrounded and disarmed dl armed the civil civi civIls s guard and locked up the officials In the barracks Not only at Barcelona but buta a throughout the province church prop property property erty lOrt was the special object of the pop Continued on Page 2 SITUATION IN SPAIN SAID TO TOBE TOBE TOBE BE IMPROVING G Continued from Page 1 liar ular fury h f r Horrible stories are arc recount recounted ed of t the merciless fashion in which the th e ed churches churche and convents were sacked and an d burned The inmates iD of ot the ln institutions tione wore were driven into the Ule fields to cries crie s of down with the church At Granollers Gr sixteen miles from Bar Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona celona two convents were wre burned Convent Looted and arid Burned At Amen Amer the th Carmelite convent was wa s looted and burned The sisters narrowly y escaped e with their UV The Madrid authorities fear f r the arri arrival arrival val vat of Alejandro Le La Reux in Spain who wh o IB la on his way to Europe from Brazil to t o place himself at the head of the revo revolution lution He Re holds the organ organizations in the hollow of his hand hond While a member of the cortes in 1903 Senor Le Reux broke brok with the party part y because it Joined with the n which included the Carlisle whom he opposed on the ground that tha t ta they the stood for the maintenance of a monarchist regime and clerical action Last year tear after a series of bitter art anti articles cbs cles cl against the government he was wa s condemned to two years imprisonment t but fled to Brazil Despite his condom condemnation condemnation nation of the Republicans he war a re reelected reelected reelected elected to parliament at the last lut elec elee elections elections and hi Is f now on ht his way home again agai n to assume leadership The government t has bas issued orders that he be arrested im immediately mediately on landing on Spanish soil |
