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 a revolution against the present government. As naturally enough always happens in regions with marked progressive tendencies, there is also a reactionary party, characterized by uncompromising attachment to the established government and a Catholicism which verges on fanaticism.

The popular discontent, which had been brewing since the beginning of the war, reached its acme when the reserves were called to depart for Morocco. This last step aroused general indignation in Barcelona and it was decided at several popular meetings to declare a general strike to protest against the war. A Strike Committee was formed and the strike declared for the 26th of July. On the 26th the general strike began in Barcelona, giving rise to several collisions with the police in which several persons were hurt and killed. The authorities of the city then held a meeting in which Senor Ossorio, the civil Governor, resigned his power into the hands of the Captain General of the province. The latter at once proceeded to