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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...
...streets and café waiters doze under the arcades of the broad, quiet Plaza de la Constitucíon. But in the second week of July, Pamplona becomes bull-mad, its streets and plaza are full of snuffing, rushing bulls. Hotels and rooming houses overflow with visitors from Madrid, Bilbao, San Sebastian, with tourists from St. Jean-de-Luz, Biarritz and Paris. Peasants from miles around sleep in wagons, in the fields, or do not sleep at all. For four days from 6 a. m. until long after midnight sleep is next to impossible while Pamplona celebrates the Fiesta...
...Tradicionalista Club, Basque royalist society, attempted to hold a meeting last week in Bilbao. Socialists, Communists, Republicans attempted to break down the doors, and the fun began. Civil Guards were called out, four people were killed, three wounded. Mobs wrecked a Catholic newspaper, hurled gasoline on the doors of a Jesuit monastery and attempted to burn it down. Inside the monastery somebody fired on the mob. As another crowd stormed the jail and attempted to lynch the 70 Tradicionalistas who had taken refuge there, 30 artillerymen saved their lives. Police searched the convents and monasteries of Bilbao for hidden arms...
Excited by stories of the gunfire coming from Bilbao's monastery, the government of Premier Manuel Azana drew up a long-contemplated decree abolishing the Jesuit order in Spain, confiscating all its property, estimated at $30,000,000 exclusive of security and trust holdings in the name of individuals, said to amount to $70,000,000. President Alcala Zamora signed the order. Jesuit superiors were expecting it, novices were ordered to pack up and get ready to leave the country, but suddenly the government grew timorous. Days passed, the decree was not published in the official gazette...
...Catalonia at the other end of the Pyrenees, Syndicalists and Communists have been waiting for many weeks for a chance to rise. Bilbao was their signal. In Barcelona a swiftly thrown police dragnet arrested the organizer of a general strike, an Italian named Duriti, and dozens of assistants, seized truckloads of pamphlets and posters. Trouble centered further north, about the manufacturing town of Manresa, where 410 years ago St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, spent a year in a cave preparing his Exercitia Spiritualia...