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...battle lines remained intact. A serious revolt of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's sympathizers was put down in Loyalist Cartagena and 30 Loyalist aviators escaped to Morocco in their planes. In their first manifesto members of the new Government even uttered bold words about "resisting to the utmost limit" and sinking or swimming together. But General Casado is an old-line career officer whose political attachments are much nearer to those of Generalissimo Franco than to Loyalist radicals. Moreover, prominent in the new junta is Julián Besteiro, former professor of logic at Madrid University, who months...
...small cruisers, four destroyers, about half the battle fleet of Leftist Spain put out from its Cartagena base in southeastern Spain one night last week and, 70 miles offshore, encountered three cruisers, four destroyers, almost the entire battle fleet of Rightist Spain. In a running two-hour battle the Leftist destroyers buried a torpedo in the 10,000-ton Baleares, flagship of the Franco fleet, which burst into flames as the oil tanks caught fire. The Leftists then put back to Cartagena, the Rightists high-tailed out to sea and two British antipiracy ships were left to pick up some...
...Loyalist east coast. Jubilantly announced Foreign Minister José Giral Pereira at Barcelona: "The engagement is as important as was the taking of Teruel.† It inaugurates a new phase in the war activities of the navy." The enraged Rightists retaliated by sending out war planes which attacked Cartagena five times, raining bombs on the Government naval base. Leftists denied suffering any serious damage...
...Leftist Government last week fired its Navy's Chief Political Commissar Bruno Alonso, also fired all political commissars appointed by him to keep an eye on the politics of Leftist sailors at the Cartagena base. The mayor of Barcelona announced that the Leftist capital has now been raided 23 times, the Rightists having dropped 528 bombs which wholly or partly destroyed 863 buildings, killed 918 persons, wounded 2,549 sufficiently for them to receive recorded treatment...
...southeast tip of Spain the city of Cartagena lies against the base of great treeless hills, facing its superb harbor, its two great forts and the Mediterranean. There in July 1873, in the fifth month of the first Spanish Republic, a group of revolutionaries hoisted the red flag. Because they could not find a pure red one they used the flag of Turkey, with its crescent stained out in blood. The frigates lying in port joined the revolt. From Madrid the central Republican Government, run by high-minded incompetents, badgered by conspiracies Right & Left, sent troops against the city...