Madrid, Oct. 10.
King Alfonso has signed a decree authorizing the state bank to export, old in order to keep up the peseta. Meanwhile the government _announced that it is still resolved to convene parliament as soon as possible and that it has had to take certain repressive measures only in order to prevent the public from falling prey to unjustified alarms.
These measures include the deportation of one English and one American newspaperman who, it is alleged, sent out "inaccurate" news, and a decree making political strikes! illegal. In spite of this declaration the strike movement spread further today. In Malaga the railwaymen Joined the strikers while in Vittoria general strike has broken out. At the latter place the police émmediately arrested 60 labour-leaders—Trans-Ocean Kuo Mi Madrid, Oct. 12.
An official Note states that the Government on October 9 took' energetic action against a large number of labour agitators and that many of their leaders- were arrested and imprisoned in Barcelona, Orders for their arrest, however, had no effect in restrain ing some of the agitators.
Police and civil guards were mobilised in several of the provincial capitals. The Premier, General Berenguer, referring to this action, told pressmen that no conspiracy had been discovered, but only. ""indiscreet, impudent activities." Reuter.
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