Show CALLED CALLEO BY EXTREMISTS OF CATALONIA I Republican Troops Quell Q ell Disorders Disorders Disorders Dis Dis- Dis- Dis orders After Mobs Release Release Release Re Re- lease Convicts BARCELONA Spain April 15 United Press A A A general strike was declared in Catalonia today bythe bythe by bythe the United Labor syndicate The strike effective Immediately began peacefully The new republican republican lican government headed by Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco Macia h had d tried desperately to avoid old the strike which was part of or extremist efforts against the new re regime A serious situation was vas developing develop develop- ing In Catalonia Th The revolutionary extremists who have long made Barcelona a hotbed hotbed hotbed hot hot- bed of or intrigue uc stirred the tha populace populace lace ace into riotous street demonstrations and began agitation among laborers in the outskirts of the city cUy Three persons persOns' have been killed and dozens injured In fighting which the republican troops halted after wide vide disorders I The extremist leaders created Iso Isolated revolutionary committees on i ithe the outskirts of Barcelona arrested various business men and wealthy wealth persons and declared a general strike In Catalonia The government set up yesterday yesterday yes yes- cs intervened intervene and persuaded some rome of the strikers to return to work but only after aner clashes in which many shots were fired Ired Mobs of rioting demonstrators wrecked and looted stores and de demanded demanded demanded de- de money and arms from the authorities They attacked the prison and freed convicts All inmates of the women's prison were freed The authorities had great difficulty in controlling the situa- situa tin in declaring Catalonia a republic conversed at length by telephone with Niceto Alcala Zamora Za- Za mora inora In hi Madrid It was then an announced announced an- an that Catalonia would be autonomous but a part of or the re republic re- re public established by the Madrid leaders S |