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Show P SPANISH PRESS STOUTLY & SUPPORTS GOVERNMENT MADKLD, Aug. .1. With Catholics in i.-, 3?omo expressing hopo that Don Jaime, thu Carlist pretender, may raise llio standard of revolt and tho Catholics of the Biscayau provinces rising in in- p snrroction and with the Caflists in t Snaiu threatening disorder, tho Tmpar-cial, Tmpar-cial, which has hitherto been unfriendly L to Premier Canalejas, ranges itsolf on B tho side of the government iu the pond- V :ing c.otiilict Avitli the Vatican. & The Liberal press in general continues t staunchly to support tho cabinet, which t ha3 been left a free hand to earry; through its policy by the departure of P Jiri Alfonso and the queen for Eug- and. Tho lmpnrcial says: w "Wo are faithful nienibcrs of the Roman Catholic church, but wo have al- w ways regarded tho issue, not a3 a religi- J ous one, but as a national problom. in- i volving iho independenco of the civil power. Not Spain, hut tho Vatican, has Si-; created tlio present situation." ,' Tho Liberal press expresses especialy indignation at tho telegram of Cardinal ' Merry del Val, tho papal secretary of V zUite' indorsing the attitude of the Bis-C Bis-C ca.ya:i Catholics, who threatened to prc-f; prc-f; cipitate civil war and in tolograms to & I ho Vatican placed their lives and prop- i - ert.v at its disposal for tho conllict. I P jformer Deputy Lorcus, . one of tho 1 t Carlist leaders in Spain, left today for I J'rolisteorf, tho Austrian residence of I ?&on .'Jaime, to confer with tho prc- I tender. His lato departure would iudi- (; rate that Carlist plans for a rising arc f in no specially advanced stage. |