* * * On March 27th General Burguete, the President
of the Supreme Court of Military Justice, sent to the Press a long document of threefold significance. It explained the sentence recently pronounced in the signatories of the Republican manifesto ; it vehemently attacked the late Dictatorship, with which General Burguete was closely associated ; and it exculpated the Army from the rumours which have implicated certain generals in shadowy political plots. The General's action stirred the Cabinet to peremptory action. Two days later he was dismissed from his post and placed under arrest for two months by General Berenguer. It is interesting to recall that, a few years ago, General Burguete was the captor, by order of the Marques de Estella, of General Berenguer. Meanwhile it becomes increasingly evident that the rumours of disaffection and conspiracy in the Army were groundless. The Cabinet is showing resolu- tion and unanimity in preparing the ground for the Cortes elections. We have yet to see whether the ground is being prepared too carefully in the Government's own interest.
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