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KING ALFONSO ABDICATES.

(Cntinued from Page 1) Mucia,the Catalan leader, has telephned to Senor Zamora, say- Ing This marvellous movement must atisfy Catalonia by antiary ing agreater and more uniteit Spain

young woman dressed in red, way- ing a red banner.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1931.

poet as rector of the Universalty of Salamanca. Nothing happened to Ayala. He was able to con- tinue to enjoy his dear delights in the cafes of the Puerto del Sol in Madrid.

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gerer. Ho has been animated by no personai hatred of the King. He joined the republican move movement because, in the light of his reason and his broad European enlture-particularly English

to Froni his home in France, he came

conclusion Daylight was approaching when banez bombarded Alfonso and that monarchy na Spain knew it the procession passed the Calle the regime with vigorous pain was fit only for the scrap heap. An Akala and met u aquadron of phlets published In Spanish, Idol of the advanced young men Civil Guards in front of the post French and English. The censors of the universities, his action had ofice. The people in the proces-stopped the books in Spain. The very great influence upon the slon cheered the guarde, who, police of London frowned, down dramatic developments of the past however, blew a trumpet blast as on the sale of the English ver-two or three days. a warning, then raised their riflersions. But the books hit the mark and tired. Men and women, panie just the same.

ท stricken, fled mass, leaving hats, cloaks, handbags and thing hampering a swift retreat. Several fell

fell seriously wounded. The now Spanish Republican

A Gorman doctor in a trainer was purple yellow and red tag was holate!

the buildingsen to collapse, shot in the body. Apparently the guards thought Rente, and British Wirelcan.

the crowd was proceeding to the it wha British Embassy, where rumoured the Royal family had taiken refuge.

A Jew York

from message Mexia City states that the head- quartra of "New Spain" were opener at noon in Avenida Madero and before King Alfonso's abdien. tlon was proclaimed.

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Capital Celebrates.

Madrid, Apr. 14.

As he Prime Minister. Admiral Aznaı, remarked yesterday even- ing, "veryone seems to have turn- ed Resublican dvernight.”

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Sceres in the capital are miniscent of Mafeking night in Londos, and are unprecedented in Madril, even in times of the mad- dest carnival.

Mounted Civil Guards lined up on the pavement looked on amused- ly as excited crowds were belator- usly but goodnutaroilly demon strating. Discinline, fear uná rez sentment, all had gone. It remed as if the great natural inferiority

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King's Destination.

Madrid, Apr. 15. The King's destination is an official secret until he is "out of harm's way," but Reuter is informed that Al- fonso, with the rest of the Royal Family, is en route to Paris--tter.

TOMIZED GORJUNTAARELAISIRVATİCƏ ALATAIRISCE DAY'SEINENT complex. had been released

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It is noteworthy that on paper the elections show a victory for the Manarchists with

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December Manifesto,

Unamuno took up his residence on the French frontler of Spain. viewed his native country as from light house and over and over again raised his voice and lifted his pen to attack the regime.

A KING WITHOUT ILLUSIONS.

Continued from Page LJ young English aristocrats went in for outdoor sports.

which Alfonso is noted in a time of crisis. Quite recently, the grand. daughter of Queen Victoria telc- phoned to a London newspaper:

"There is no danger. Every- thing is quiet. Everyone is safe. The king went out this morning this a public ceremony and to afternoon he is going to the royal barracks."

Her girlhood was spent chielly at Kensington Palace and in the Isle of Wight, of which her mother Her charm-

MANY ATTEMPTS AT ASSASSINATION.

(Continued from Page 1.)

and unshaken. With one hand he assisted his pretty wife out of the conch. With the other he waved to the people to show he was un- hurt,

was made Governor.

"A fragment of the bomb had ing Informality, interest in out-shattered the chain of the Portu- door sports and solicitude for

favourite guene Order he was wearing!" others made her wherever she went, and

the an- nouncement In 1986 that King Alfonso had won her consent to become. his bride aroused intrase popular interest.

Was

1925 Outrages,

have

Ever

annrclists Binco, been seeking to murder him.

Many dates on the king's calen Life at Court.

dar in 1926, for instance, should have been printed in blood-red. Her life at the Spanish Court with

In June of that year, Alfonaʊ was all its elaborate ceremonial very trying to her after the free- in Barcelona. While he was at dom of English life, but she adapt-tending mass at the great cathe ed herself to it studiously, and dral, the police discovered bomb with a time fuse which had been placed there to bring death to the only introduced British customs without clashing with those of

monarch. and ideas when she could do so

She made herself be. Spain. loved of Spanish women by improv owning their educational system and

nuderniaing their outlook.

She had six children-two sona ans four daughters.

So though the young Alfonso Then suddenly Ayain joined the band of fighting authors. He might appear at court in velvet added his name to the famous Fauntleroyanits and with curled December

pronunciamento by hair, in his play hours he was en- prominent Spaniards, in which couraged

to take up tennis and WAR. sinted the monarchy Hole. He became a fearless rider gainst 5,875 Republican seataj but the former comprise the small and the monarch must go and of horses. Later in his life, when rural town and hamlets of few republican Institutions be sub-automobiles enme in vogue, there Ayala's appearance was no better royal driver in all raluch

local tituted. by inhabitants.

tremediate the world. He loved the sea and role ኒና'ኔ !4 "bosses," while the Republicans

OWB yeht. as of great signl-had his regardent have overwhelmingly carried the

Benner for Te is one of the racing and mabitained his villes,

finest writers Spain possesses. stables,

story writer, poet, short

He was a sportsman extraordin- novelist, eritie, 11 is equally fary. brilliant. His richly satirical and humorous novel "Bellermin ni Apollonitis" has been claimed to

PEN MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD.

THREE. MUSKETEERS OF THE INKPOT.

King Alfonso's abdication is ogr

proof that more

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Alfonso's Wooing.

The young monarch w 20, be one of the finest literary pro-And at 20, i got the same advice daetions since "Don Quixote," that comes to young men the world this book he showed himself to he

Jover when they have left their teens: "It's time for your to get married and settle down.",

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Empress former Eugenie of France, came message to Allanso. Like most WORDED. Eugenie WICH

born match-maker, and she had know Alfonso for a long time.

a vigorous critic and satirist all kinds of cranke and extremists political. religious, mcientífje, Thu- his gibe at a clergyman who

realized in entemology:

Son of the Soil,

"He has discovered many new Insects. fie would sprejes have done better by humanity it

invented he

It may well be that in a hundred yenes from w rothe Spanish writer will speak of Klasen Baanez...

and gol Unamuine

Ramon Perez de Ayala az "The Three Musketeers of the tuk-pot," or as

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just turned ofty. Alfonso held the friendship and Fi Is a native of that puert the loyalty of the bulk of the Spain knowa the Asturias, regular army and of the wonder- | His role as champion of

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She believed in direct action. She sent the young Alfonso in-picture of Princess Ena of Batten- ferg, a cousin of His Majesty King George. Accompaning it was a portrait of "my dear godehild of whose loveliness, grave and charm i pletars can give but a poor iden."

He went Alfonso was rarions,

fair England and met the

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Bands in the cafes played the Marseillaise, and a huge process

Te this sion formed at the Puesta del Sel ful Cirle Guard whose members | publicanism shows him to be and paraded the main streets, are to be seen all over Spain. true son at the soil on which he bringing out people from the cafes | lié was not happy in his fortunes. was born, for one of the greatest ant rinemas to swell the demon-

with Spain's great writers.

of modern Spanish critics, Sal-Princess Enn. She was then a stration.

vador Madariaga,, says of As girl of 19, tall. golden-haired. blue-eyed. The king made up his "Her nien always have been in mind at unre. They were quickly the van of political progress in engaged. Princess Ena became a the peninsula. It was in Asturias convert to the Catholic church and that Charles 11 found his enthey were married in 1906. lightened statesmen. It is from Asturias that contemporary Spain draws her pioneers in education, politics and social reforms."

Newspaper Offices Serenaded.

Men and women linked arms and danced ecstatically, singing the Marsellaise. They serenade the Republican newspaper offices, and throw their arms round the Civil Guarte. Many motor-cars. with harangoing orators joined the processiun. In one Pat

The late Badez went into valan- fary exile so as to be freer to fight him. Unumune was at first | banh.hed by the late dictator, Rivers, to a bleak little isle in the Atlantie, Wh

escaped Unamines remaiurd in involuntary exile until Rivera fell and he could return in triumph to his cld

Ayala is no light-hearted awag.

An Ideal Queen.

She has been an ideal queen for Alfonso, and in marriage she took something of the calm for

On

reign of

Spain's Progress. The now terminated King Alfonso has seen Spain make than for cen- Kreater progress

uries. The King found a country ingering in the traditions of a great past, and he strove ceasantly to create the conditions far as great a future.

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Spain has become an industrial nation of ever-incrensing import- any, and even als bitterest critics and enemies admit that much of

due this progress is

Lo the monarch's unflagging efforts.

MONGKOK ROBBERY.

HAUL OF $200 THIS MORNING.

A huul of money and jewellery, amounting to over $200 in value, was made by two robbers, from the first floor of No. 7. Argyle Street, Mongkok, at eight o'clock this morning.

The only inmate on the floor al the time was a Chinese woman, who was intimidated with a dis- play of violence. Remaining for about 20 minuten during which the thoroughly ransacked place. the robbers escaped.

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In the same month, when Al- foran was travelling back to Mark rid, a bomb found on the railway line between Barcelona and the

was timed to

go o capital. It when the royal train was dus at that point.

In August, ex-King Alfonso Was living at his painee at Santander, which was given to him through a popular subscription by loyalists. There the police arrested an anar chist as he stood within a few fect of the king and was in the art of drawing a revolver.

Alfonso's Resource.

A year or two later, an unpleas, ant message from General Rivera, the Premier-dictator, interrupted a game of bridge at King Alfonso's palace in San Sebastain. Twelve artillery regiments were in mutiny, What did the king think should be

dore.

The king didn't think. The king acted. Within an hour he had his

BUDGET DEFICIT.

SUGGESTED MEASURE TO

RAISE £55,000,000.

How the anticipated deficit in the forthcoming Budget could be balanced by Increased indirect taxation, increased unemployment insurance contributions, and A special levy on Income tax and surtax assessments is

article in the "Econ shown in an

the

on

Taking into account the Supply Estimates already published, and various sources of revenuɑ cu the existing basis, the article es-

that the timates

to be bridged gnp to will be about £47,000,000, to which a further £8,000,000 will have to be added if the

Unemployment Insurance Act is not revised.

The indirect taxes proposed aro: An increase in the dution spirits from 728, 6d. to 708, a gal- lon, and on bear from 1008. to 100s, a barrel: a duty of dd. per Ib on tea, together with Increased duties on coffee, cocou, and sugar: an increase in the duty on tobacco from 8a. 10d. to 98. Gd, per ib, and in the duty on petrol 84.

by gallon; an increase in various Excise duties, for instance, mineral waters and entertain- menta, These duties, it is es- timated, would bring in £35,000,- 000.

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There remains £20,000,000 to be, found. Of this £6,000,000 could be raised by a surcharge of 30. 11⁄2d. for juveniles) ou the pre- scnt contributions of all persons in employment.

The residue of £14,000,000 would be obtained by a repeal of lust year's concession, whereby the Arst £280 of taxable income pays four-ninths of the standard rate instead of £225 paying one-bult the standard ratu, as previously; and by a special levy of 3d. In the £ on all individual assessments to income tax and surtax, Com- panies would be exempt from this special levy, so as not to increuse the direct burden on industry.

The defcit for the current year is estimated by the "Economist" at about £25,000,000. This, to gether with last year's deficit it is kit packed nad, with himself at suggested; should be met out of the wheel of his powerful car; did | the provision for the Sinking the 300 miles over none too good | Tund, subject to repayment to the roads to Madrid in less than six] Fund over the next seven years, houra. Many times he reached more than 80 miles an hour..

He went Immediately to the garrison where threats were being made against his life and his king Hom. By sheer force of his sonality, he calmed the mutinous troops and restored order.

London, Apr. 14.

that

It is officially announced the King continues to make good per-progress. His progress in the past few days is considered so satle- factory that in future only one statement on his condition will be made each day.-Reuter.

Then he went back to the bridge table at San Sebastian.

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