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...Three Wise Men leave presents in the shoes of Spanish children, to whom stocking-stuffing Santa Claus is a stranger. This week citizens of Barcelona had barely begun to buy toys when fire totally destroyed on Christmas Day the seven buildings of El Siglo, "Spain's Largest Department Store" which was crammed with toys against the coming of the Three Wise...
There was dancing in the streets in Barcelona last week, such a fiesta as not even the oldest Catalan could remember. By oxcart and on burro the peasants came in their red stockinet caps and baggy breeches. Leather-faced fishermen came up from Tarragona. All night long shouting crowds surged up & down under the huge plane trees of the ramblas to rigadoon round the statue of Christopher Columbus and back up the hill again. From a thousand staffs fluttered the five-barred red-&-yellow Catalonian flag. Trucks of Shell Oil Co. were hailed with delight...
While the General ate his dinner, mobs shouted around the prison. Communists rioted in Bilbao. In San Sebastian, Republicans tried to lynch several Monarchists. In Barcelona, Archduke Carlos of Habsburg-Bourbon was arrested on suspicion. After a night of serene sleep General Sanjurjo set out for El Dueso Prison in Santander Province to begin a term which few Spaniards expect him to finish...
...began swimming. Later a motorboat picked him up, still swimming toward Africa. In Seville mobs burned monarchists' homes, freed Communists and Syndicalists from jail, mobbed royalist newspaper offices. As prisoners left the jail, others- participants in the revolt-went in. Republican demonstrations were staged in Cordoba, Valencia, Santander, Barcelona. In Madrid the conservative papers A. B. C., Informaciones, El Debate and Nacion were suspended. Casualties of the revolt: 1,000 arrested, 90 wounded, ten killed, including one Nicanor Puerto who committed suicide. The Government promised General Sanjurjo would not be executed "unless the law left no alternative." Disloyal Civil...
...Last week wise Bishop Manuel Irurita y Almandoz of Barcelona ordered all his priests to refrain, without express permission, from attending all political meetings, from "speaking publicly of affairs that foment partisanship...