General Prime de Rivera, the Spanish ex-Dictator, died here today. General de Rivera, who had been suffering from diabetes, expiry of heart-failure in a room at an hotel while his son and daughters were attending Mass.
The body is being embalmed for transport to Madrid—Reuter. Madrid, Mar, 17.
'The death of General Prime de Rivera' enormously simplifies the political situation.
Tt is regarded as a blow to the Republican case against the King as the strongest plank in the Republican platform up to the present has been the supposed complicity of King Alfonso in the coup defat 1928 which made General de Rivera into a Dictator.
Tt was proposed to challenge upon that issue and when the time came it was believed that General de Rivera would prove to be most embittered over the King's curt dismissal after seven years of service and the popular rejoicing over his
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