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Show PRISONERS IN SPAINv liH GO ON HUNGER STRIKE MADRID, May 26. Hunger striking IflH which was begun some time ago in tho H Barcelona prison, threatens to spread J to other jails in Spain unless prisoners jH detained simply by order of the gov- J ernors and without specific charges being lodged against them are released Syndicalists at Bilbao began starva- Bl tion tactics last night. iH The newspapers of Madrid contained 1 iH virtually no news today except re- ports of strikes which have become tH almost general in Valencia, Santander, jH Barcelona, Cadiz, Oviedo, Malaga, Or- flH enze, Salamanca and Calladolld. At H many places there havo been pro cos- H sions by women in protest against the prevailing high prices. Sometimes the demonstrations were accompanied H by acts of violence necessitating in HH tervention by the police. , HH In Madrid the scarcity of bread con- I tinues and there were many small , demonstrations held early this morn- H H ing. |