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Show MADRID IS CALLED "SPY CAPITAL" OFWORLD Fixed Price of $600 Placed in Spain on Destruction of VeeU by Bombs. By K. W. Payne By Special News Service. MADRID, June J. The last outpost of German Intrigue In Europe and ths py capital of the world that la what Madrid has today become. With the entry of the United Stales, Cubs, and Panama Into ths world war. the seething mesa of German plotting In 8pain has takes oa a freater significance sig-nificance than aver, and one especially espe-cially vital to Americana All the Teuton bomb plot methods which have mad the Kaiser's agents so odious In America have been paralleled par-alleled here In Spain, and Kith even more sinister Intent. German money haa been held out lavishly. It Is generally gen-erally believed here that fixed price of iAOO was put on the successful destruction de-struction of an allied vessel by bomhe. The Spanish government ha - labored la-bored to atamp out criminal German plotting here. Secret submarine bases along the coasts have been found, bomb making plants raided, and wireless wire-less stations put out of business. But less violent forms of German propaganda propa-ganda still flourish. The Spanish clerical element la pro-German. pro-German. The church here feels it drawa Its strength from autocracy. Moreover, It is hostile to Krance, which It calls "atheistic." The aristocrats, the reactionaries and Important parti of the army are pro-German. But among the common people of Spain you find a different situation, i The great clash of Isaues between militarism mil-itarism and democracy la understood as distinctly by the thinkers, the liberals lib-erals and the common people of Spain aa It is anywhere else on earth. Following Spanish laoor'a recent threat of a revolutions! general atrlke, many confident predictions were msde that Kussla'a revolution would be followed fol-lowed by one in Spain. But here and In Barcelona, which industrially Is the Vesuvius crater of Europe, the situation situa-tion appears far less simple than that According to certain experienced students of the situation. German money has secretly been fomenting an ostensibly democratic revolution. WhyT To complicate matters for the allies along the French frontier. The Germans have wanted to prove to th Spanish government that the rause of the allies was revolutionary, hoatile to all established dynasties. It Is said they actually hoped thus to persusde the Spanlah authorities. In self defense, to throw In their lot with the central powers, the defenders defend-ers of monarchy. The Immediate occasion for general unreal, on which the Teuton plotters ajretaldchsve seirehaseen the food and fuel shortage and th Increase In-crease in the cost of living. Though the Rom anon es government declared martial law and quelled Instantly In-stantly th recent menace of revolution, revolu-tion, there la atlll ample reason for hdmoitlrmWsclSrialn |