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Show e1 Aged Admiral Named Premier :r.! Of Spain; Safeguards Throne h ,r j MADRID. Feb. 18 r.): Admiral n)Ju:in Baustistn Azmir y Cabanas , j becume premier of Spain today. ff I inking the oath of office at the ; head monarchic! concentration gov-. gov-. , eminent. Is j After more than four days of the l" most serious government crisis dur-M" dur-M" ing the reign of King Alfonso XUT. the 70-year-old captain general of the navy was suddenly called to the .premiership t safeguard the throne against threats of republican up-r up-r hoaval and demands for fur-reach-n i ing restrictions of the monarch, w Wiihiu les than three hours Ad-nf Ad-nf ' mind A'iim- completed the m:.:U u- , which the mo.;t influential liberal ie j politicians in Spain had failed to 's. , "vomplish. j The monarchal concertation I cabinet will work for parliamentary i government as well as a constitu-: constitu-: tional convention to revise the con-i con-i stitiition of 1S76. but without such : stringent restrictions on the king'.i : power as proposed by the constitutionalist constitu-tionalist and liberals who failed to form a government. The capital was quiet. Yesterday the government had taken strict military precautions against disorders dis-orders or revolutionary movements and troops were concent rated in barracks or at strategic point? mound the capital. The nation was under strict censorship and constitutional consti-tutional iruaj-antoeg wre suspended |