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Show SPANISH CENSORSHIP STILL IS IXafiilE Impossible to Learn Truth as to Conditions in Much- Troubled Trou-bled Country. PARIS, Aug. 2. The internal situation In Spain tonight seems to be Improved. Barcelona has emerged from her Isolation and the threatened general strike In Madrid appears to havo been averted, at least temporarily. Tho first train out of Catalonia's capital capi-tal city since the beginning of the tragic events there reached the French frontier tonight, bringing censored and plainly inexact in-exact newspaper accounts of the insurrection. insurrec-tion. The rest is shrouded In mystery. Several of the smaller cities are reported report-ed lo be In the hands of the revolutionists revolution-ists and many villages have proclaimed the district a republic. Troops are being steadily distributed throughout thc rebellious re-bellious districts, and barring new serious seri-ous outbreaks tho Insurrectionists eventually event-ually will be forced to capitulate. It is said that the authorities are determined to crush the insurrection before the return re-turn from South America of Deputy Alojandre Leroux, chief of the Republicans Republi-cans at Barcelona, whose period uf exile ex-ile for political reasons way set aside by the chamber of deputies last April. Reports from San Felice, Palamos and Cassa do la Selva say that these places are still In tho hands of tjie revolutionists. revolution-ists. It is rumored that the Spanish gunboat Temerarlu has loft for San Felice to aid the troops In restoring order. An official statement Issued In Madrid tonight concerning the proposed general strike there says thai numerous masons failed to report Tor duty today, but It Is explained that this was due to a fear of a clash with the unionists. Spain's censorship tonight Is more inexorable inex-orable than ever. No news has been received re-ceived from the various points in the north, where the trade unions bad planned a general strike for todav, and therefore the actual conditions there and elsewhere cannot be stated. |