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Show SPANISH KINGDOM UNDER MARTIAL LAW Constitutional Guarantees Suspended on Account of Railway Strike. MADRID, via Paris, July 13, 9:40 p. m. In view of the railroad strike the government has suspended the constitutional con-stitutional guarantees and martial law has been proclaimed throughout Spain tonight. King Alfonso has arrived at Madrid from La Granja. A general i strike is announced for July 16. ! The city and province of Madrid were declared by the government in a state of siege on Thursday. This ftep was taken on account of the Ftrike of railroad employes em-ployes which has disorganized the transportation trans-portation system of tiie country and has resulted in serious disturbances. The strike becan on the northern railroad rail-road on June 11 and is reported to have spread, not merely to the other railroads of Spain but to the industries in the great industrial centers of Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia. Pilboa and Oviedo. I The primary cause of the strike was the refusal of the Northern Railwavs rom-panv rom-panv to Increase wasres. but thf-re have been pro wing unrest and perious disturbances dis-turbances In most of the provinces of i Spain as a result of the increased cost of ! food, caused by the great war. Condi-1 Condi-1 tions have hef-n growing steadily more 1 serious, according to news dispatches from I Spain, since last March, when serious I riots took place In many towns, causing several deaths and the wounding of a I number of persons. |