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Spanish readers of La, Nation* of Buenos Aires, Argentina, scanned with interest a "scoop" carried by that famed news organ last week after its publisher Don Jorge Mitre obtained the first audience granted by King Alfonso XIII of Spain to a news-gatherer since the recent artillery officers' mutiny (TIME, Sept...
...after midnight when King Alfonso, enjoying a quiet game of bridge in the Miramar Palace at San Sebastian, was called to the telephone by an urgent summons from Premier de Rivera, who explained that twelve regiments of artillery were in mutiny and that the King's presence in Madrid was imperative...
...King Alfonso deemed the recent mutinous outbursts among Spanish artillerymen sufficiently quieted last week to revoke the decree of martial law issued a fortnight...
...Alfonso, Prince of the Austurias, eldest son of King Alfonso XIII of Spain: "The motor car in which I was riding with my tutor near San Sebastian last week collided with a motor truck and I escaped injury as by a miracle. My health has been reported 'indifferent' for so long that I am suspected of suffering from some permanent disorder and there is talk of offering the succession to someone else. If I am passed over it is expected that a similar fate will overtake my father's second son, Prince Jaime, for he is almost...
...King Alfonso returned hastily to Madrid from the summer capital at San Sebastian to assist the Premier in dealing with this situation...