Madrid, Jan, 26, 'The date set for Spain's generat strike was January 26, but to-day' sport stars that comparative quiet
Madrid work went on ina generally: ye I normal fashion, except for the rest of a number of extremists who held a public meeting for the prow mulgation of a wholesale strike to take place to-In Barcelona the Communists, hitherto held in check by the police, spasmodically spring into action in their bid for power but are quickly put down by the Government forces.
In Seville, however, the generat strike found good ground and day no trams or taxis are running, But a military detachment of arcos lanes is constantly flying overhead, and machine guns are stationed various points of the city—offective measures which have so far pre cluded any' serious disturbances.
Jan, 27, Spain's communist cauldron is simmering thou giving ne signs of boiling over, and the Government authorities seem to have things pretty much" undes Senor Casares Quiroga, Minister of the Interior, said to-day that he Jattributed the' recent troubles of con He considered the fact that the proposed general strike for the collapse of the whole come lid not come off as a happy augur
munist movement, Senor Quiroga issued a deeres condemning all prisoners arrested during the recent riots to deport tion." Meanwhile the Spanish inet is planning a number schools to be formed! in readi the moment when the religious orders hand over educational work to the Slate—Reuter.
Rome, Jun, 27.
A vigorous protest, against the Uissolution of the Society, of Jesus fu Spain and the confiscation of the entire property of the order was. [launched to-day by the "Osservatore Romano", the official organ of the Vatican, Employing extremely violent language, the Papal journal asserts. that the influence of the radicals is fon the increase in Spain and thab 'a5 a result of this, the republican movement degenerating into a terrorist" regime, as was amply demonstrated by recent events in Catalonia. "Spain's present policy, i¢ is declared, will do untold harm'to the cause of the republic, Apart from that it will. deprive Spanish people of some. of thei most important educational faci ties, it is stated. To illustrate this. "Osservatore Romano" that over 100,000 pupils in the Jesuit schools throughout Spain are Woprived of their teachers as a result of the expulsion decree signed last Monday by President Zamora.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min,
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