Show q s Rs SPA I DILEMMA MA 1 h The troubles of Spain are multiplying h with great put rapidity these days In ad U t i Action ill to the war WI r In Uric Africa the Republicans and Socialists at home hOlM have baWl I the red Mac flag of insurrection The Ij c province of Catalonia is in a ai i stilts Kate of anarchy and barricades have j ton hoer erected in ia the streets of numerous i 1 i and towar tow At Barcelona thet the I t t were wars wept swept by a murderous ar artillery tillery tilt ery lire Ire r sad and ta tM the revolutionists slaughtered without mercy Soldiers In aU all J parts of the kingdom are on OIl the verge i If mutiny and martial law has been t to declared red stud and all constitutional guaran guarantees t I tees suspended led The nose cause of the up ups s In aln a te b the war war In fat Morocco the soldiers and the common peo pm t c lA those these who have been called to the oj colon insist at is b for tor the benefit bendt of the tankers t t i A great peat battle has baa taken place at and the Spanish forces force have haft Buffered a crushing defeat which ha has been likened In some respects to the theae 4 fete ae of ot the Italian army in Abyssinia j The T general in 11 command has ha appealed f a for l tr reinforcements r and it te is estimated that that it will require a force of mento men mento to crush the Moors The Kab le tribes I J which are of Berber origin are ure the peo people eO pIe with Rith whom the iOl ler of o Spain pain are art I Ii i contending for supremacy tin on tl the RUT Riff I II I N coast of Morocco M T These i who are ore Sunni Moslems are turn torn sot sol sotis soli is isy y i S I F cof c of at the plains have been b en t engaged in lu carrying out public won WJ ks connected with Spain s mining hf tf wrests rests on un the th coast while those of the Ute mountains mountain by sudden udden raids have peri pert periodically periodically undone the work vork of their broth brothers ers of the plains The present revolt is till due doe to the in inspiration Inspiration of ul the thene new sultan of Morocco who Mho recently It is said ordered the Spaniards to evacuate the Riff RUf coast t The in carrying on Oft the revolt are using some Mauser Mauller rifles which were Wen sold to t them for tor his personal l profit pro t by General governor of Me tills who recently was killed in a ortie The Rift BUT coast came into pose po of Spain after the Moors Moons bad been driven oat out of Europe in hi the fifteenth century and lid were pursued into Africa To pre vre prevent prevent vent a second Moorish invasion Spain began bean at once to fortify this comet coast and by the middle of or the seventeenth th cen century century century tury from Ceuta to Melilla Melina and east eastward eastward eastward ward as fur far as the Algerian frontier was wac a strong line of fortifications Most of the forts fort are now hOW far advanced in ruin and all are lire obsolete Some had been evacuated even een as early as the be beginning beginning ginning of the nineteenth century and with the connivance of successive ele SpanIsh Span Spanish SpanIsh ish governors became the stronghold of pirates until the latter tatter j ere re swept from rom the aeji by th of France England and arid the tle United States Twelve hundred years e ns ago the he Ber Her Berber Berber Herber ber tribes under antler Arab leaders Invaded Spain and end the whole country with the exception of of the submitted ta to toru rule rale ru Portugal l also Viso came under the oke df Of tbt fanatical tJ n followers p s f et HOr r a as time the whole o of f southern sau n Europe h was was menaced mena the in n v lter ra being uniformly victorious until Charles d Martel pf France annihilated t the heats boats I of ot trU under under Adder n on ort the plains of Tours in m That put a tI stop atop to the invasion so ho far faras faras as France c was s concerned but hut the Arabs maintained their foothold in Spain until the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella I when they were finally driven over the water wt ter Into Africa This occurred in 14 1411 Ith year r of ot the discovery of Amer America AmerIca America ica by bt COlUmbUS The rise and fall fail of the Moslem Moe em power in Spain to Is one of the most moat fascinating t fl stories in history and the fall of Granada has furnished a atheme atheme atheme theme for cor countless novelists as well wella a as Now the descendants of the t e Berbers Berbere who originally conquered Spain are are face to face with frith the Ute descendants of the Spaniards who fought under the ban banners banners banners ners of or Ferdinand and Isabella In the middle ages age a The Spaniards Spaniard will probably probably probably ably win In the end unless s the revolutionist revolutionists succeed IB In tipping over the home government No crown will be safe during a die dis disastrous twentieth century war |