The Archive · 1931

Petrol Trains In" Collision

Bucharest, Sept, 21.

Five railway employees wert burnt to death today when two' trains, both carrying supplies of petrol, come, into collision' betweot sti and Slobozia, eats, tains were travelling at full speed and the impact _causod, an explosion which set them bot on fire. The flames spread quickly, and 50 wagons were either partly, or completely destroyed—Reuter.

'This view, however, was not shared at Barcelona where the first press conimentaries complain that, while' the article establishes the federal principle it leaves all details un~ Settled. The papers urge Colonel Macia to be on his guard because: the: efforts to scuttle the autonomist Catalan movement have not yet bee abandoned—Trans-Ocean Kuo Mu Madrid, Sept. 26.

Basque: deputies fought tooth and the course of a. long ting of ithe Cortes to obtain the vilege of a separate Concordat ith Rome and uttered grim threats of trouble sin' the North when the Cortes, by an oxerwhelmins _ma-

[the Constitution within the time limit selby the Prime Minister, Senor Alcala Zamora.—Reuter.

Madrid, Sept. 27

The existence of serious unrest} in the Spanish navy has been rew vealed by the announcement. of the: arrest of over a hundred petty' officers of the fleet at the mavat base of La Ferrel.

'The arrested men will by tried! by court martial on a charge having spread disaffection amongst. the crews. The nature of this pro paganda has not. been stated, bu there is reason to believe that, th, petty' ofoers sisefminated " Cathe if] Kus, Min,'

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