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Five battalions of infantry, a squadron of cavalry, a battery of artillery took the field and Manresa and the other towns were invaded. The "Catalonian Workers' Republic" fell as quickly as it had risen. Most of the inhabitants were heartily glad to see the soldiers. By nightfall troops were playing hide and seek in the mountains with the last of the revolutionists. In Barcelona the government chartered the liner Buenos Aires, loaded it with political prisoners and ordered the captain to sail without any destination until he received further orders by wireless...
...arranged by Dr. Davison, and by G. W. Woodworth '24, assistant director of the choir and director of the Choral Society, includes three songs which were also on last year's program, "The Holly and the Ivy," a traditional Gloucestershire carol, "Fum, Fum, Fum," a Christmas march from the Catalonian province, and the "Christmas Carol of the Pifferari," a Neapolitan air. The other carols, which have not been sung recently are "Glory to God in the Highest," by Pergolist; "The Five Lesser Joys of Mary," by Warlock, "Upon My Lap My Sovereign Sits," by Pierson; "Christmas Bells," by Osgood...
...carols to be given this year included three songs that were on last year's program, "The Holly and the Ivy", a traditional Gloucestershire carol, "Fum, Fum, Fum", a jolly Christmas march from the Catalonian province, and the "Christmas Carol of the Pifferarl", a Neapolitan air. Of the carols that have not been done recently are "Glory to God in the Highest", by Pergolisi, "The Five Lesser Joys of Mary", by Warlock, "Upon Mr Lap My Sovereign Sits", by Person, "Christmas Bells", by Osgood, and "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence", by Gustav Holst...
Once more last week Catalonians went to the polls and voted their desire for independence from Madrid. In the four Catalonian provinces (Barcelona, Lerida, Tarragona, Gerona) 173,000 voted for autonomy, 2,517 voted against it. It was a 70 to 1 victory for Col. Francisco Macia, wild-eyed "President" of Catalonia, a victory that he celebrated with much gusto...
...Catalonian autonomous state will make Catalan the official language, fly its own five-barred red-&-yellow flag, control civil, criminal, labor law, railroads, hydroelectric works, grant artistic and literary copyrights, regulate stock exchanges, all police in the province, issue hunting and fishing licenses, and collect monies from the tobacco and match monopolies...