España al borde de una guerra civil

SPAIN VERGES ON CIVIL WAR
» Down with King!» Cry Mobs in Barcelona — Martial Law Throughout Kingdom.
TROOPS JOIN IN REVOLT
Refuse to Fire on Mobs and Disobey Officers at Front in Morocco.
LOSSES HEAVY AT MELILLA
Gen. Pintos and Other Officers Killed — Casualties Exceed 200 — Severe Previous Losses Reported.

Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

LONDON, July 28. — Martial law has been declared throughout the whole of Spain, and in Catalonia, where the troubles are clearly revolutionary in character, the severest measures of repression will be enforced.

The seriousness of the situation is sufficiently indicated by official dispatches which have passed the censorship, and which doubtless do not emphasize the worst features.

The riots at Barcelona have assumed the character of civil war. The rioters’ barricades have been destroyed by artillery, churches have been burned, bridges blown up, and railways dynamited. News of serious losses to the Spanish arms at Melilla will add fresh fuel to the domestic conflagration.