Show m m Today's Anniversary 4 fc fc B m 4 On June 18 1917 the province of at Catalonia which embraces the city of Barcelona was In political fer ferment ferment fer- fer er- er ment and threatened to secede from Spanish do do- do minion The revolutionary protest In to Catalonia was provoked provoked pro pro- yoked because of ot the pro-German pro feeling ol ot the conservatives con con- led by Eduardo Dato Date the new minister r. r Barcelona's deputy Senor said that Spain's failure to w enter the war on the side of ot the I Iames allies ames would be indication of ot her Impotence fear and I incapacity Reports from Madrid on this day indicated that th he the demand for radical reforms was acute all over Spain and that a thorough liberalization of ot the electoral electoral elec elec- toral military and economic laws was WIlS inevitable On this day on the thc western front the French captured a a. German salient in to Champagne between Mont and Mont Blond and the British fell back east cast of le |