23 JUNE 1917, Page 2

But the attitude of the Army is only one factor

in the situation, though its revolt brought down the Garcia Prieto Ministry and led to the formation of a new Conservative Government under Senor Dato. The extreme Conservative followers of Senor Matra, whom the Times correspondent charges with establishing closer contact with the pro-German Carlists, have united with the advanced Liberals in assailing the new Ministry, and even the Crown ; while the aims of the Army, despite its patriotic protestations, remain obscure. The correspondent evidently does not regard the move- ment as engineered to establish a stratocracy, so much as a protest against " personal power," and strongly condemns the attempt to make the King the scapegoat for the laxity and weakness of previous Administrations.