Madrid, Apr. 17, A state of alarm was decreed by the Government to-day for a period of thirty days. Simultaneously, the Rovernment ordered the dissolution all Paseist semi-military leagues fand similar organizations.
Meanwhile, Senor Eloy Gomez Fernandez and his brother, Antonido, both Fascists, were killed in a gun battle with Communists near the village of Canillas to-day.
The general strike decreed yester~ day was nearly 100 per cent. effective fat noon to-day. Gun-fre was heard various sections of Madrid, but police reported that no casualties had been incurred.—United Press.
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