Word: cartagena
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...military barracks were Governor Valera Valverde, the mayor, the chief of police and seven councilmen. Lieut.-Colonel Marquis de Sauceda was named Governor of Seville. From Algeciras and from Jerez de la Frontera, where all Spain's sherry is made, came mutinying troops to join the rebels. At Cartagena a naval garrison mutinied. In Granada and Malaga revolutionary fervor ran high. General Sanjurjo cut all telegraph & telephone wires north of Seville. The general, who had escorted Queen Victoria from Spain after last year's revolution, announced that his coup was "purely republican." Few believed...
...American radio stations at Cristobal and Miami broadcast the SOS. Six airplanes set out from the Naval base at Coco Solo, C. Z. The minesweeper Swan was ordered to patrol off Cartagena, Colombia. Pilot Herbert Boy, a German War flyer and chief pilot of Scadta air lines, searched from Barranquilla. For two and a half days there was no trace of the shipwrecked men; hope was nearly given up. Then a carpenter's mate on the bridge of the Swan sighted the drifting lifeboat...
...telephone operators left their desks. Lewis J. Proctor, U. S. manager of Telefonica, was severely beaten as he tried to leave his office. Dock workers went out in a sympathy strike, so did employes of the gas works. The Government rushed destroyers and a squadron of airplanes up from Cartagena to maintain order...
Four o'clock in the morning, seven hours later, Alfonso's car roared down to the docks at Cartagena. Police kept back the crowd. A little group of naval officers stood huddled at the end of the pier in the starlight. The Captain's barge from the cruiser Principe Alfonso rose and fell with the tide. King Alfonso in a brown overcoat and grey felt hat jumped from his car, strode forward nervously puffing a cigaret. Grey-haired Admiral Magaz, onetime member of Dictator Primo de Rivera's cabinet advanced snuffling con solations. Alfonso threw aside his cigaret...
...Graf Zeppelin made a sweet passage from Friedrichshafen (on the German-Swiss border), down the Rhone Valley, across the Gulf of Lions, toward Gibraltar. Then the crankshaft of one of her five engines broke. Near Cartagena, Spain, Commander Eckener turned her back towards Friedrichshafen...