Membership to be Increased to Four Hundred San Sebastian, Sept. 22.
The King to-day authorised the Government to increase the membership of the National Assembly four hundred, after which the Premier, General Prime de Rivera, issued a statement to the effect that the Government does not intend to allow itself to be tricked or to permit public opinion to.be misled; and, therefore, it has decided to take very' stringent' measures against those seeking to re-plunge the country to the ills from which it was saved by mien of goodwill backed by honest citizens.
The Premier declares thay active! opponents of the Government will Be condemned guilty of high tre:
their property will be confiseated;"and their names and titles will be croced from the official lists and subjected to public odium.—Reuter.
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