Word: cervera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...southern Catalan front the Rebels thus came within 50 miles of Barcelona, while other columns to the west pressed beyond the stronghold of Cervera, to within 38 miles of the Loyalist capital. Barcelona Province, a month ago 40 miles from the front, became a theatre of War. The hitherto narrow Rebel corridor to the sea was widened to about 115 miles and contained the additional advantage of a good port at which Rebel supplies brought direct from Italy could be unloaded. And Loyalist Catalonia, jammed with 6,500,000 inhabitants and refugees, shrank to an area little bigger than that...
Defense: General José Fidel Davila, successor to General Emilio Mola on the Basque front. Heading the three services under him will be General Luis Orgaz for the Army; Joaquin Cervera, the son of famed Admiral Pascual Cervera (Santiago Bay) for the Navy; General Kindelan for the Air Force...
CINCUS-designate Bloch, born to Czechoslovakian immigrant parents in Woodbury, Ky., is a sombre tight-lipped officer who has been cited for meritorious service in two wars, for rescuing Spaniards from Admiral Cervera's burning squadron off Santiago in 1898 and for commanding the naval transport Plattsburg 20 years later. Gobs who wondered whether CINCUS Bloch would be as stern a disciplinarian as CINCUS Hepburn were last week enlightened by his sister, Mrs. Stella Bloch of Bowling Green, Ky.: "He is sensitive, studious, generous to a fault but always ready to fight when teased...
...Andutz-Mendi, set it ablaze. Up the mast scrambled a sailor to hoist his shirt as a flag of surrender, had his head blown off by a freakish hit of one of the submarine's projectiles. Freakish too was the escape of the Rightist sea-raiding cruiser Almirante Cervera. She was caught by a Leftist air squadron which rained some 20 bombs, some so close that spray from their splashes spattered her decks, but zig-zagging frantically she opened up with her anti-aircraft batteries, escaped...
...success scaring off Spanish Rightist warships from molesting the craft upon which Spanish Leftists were escaping as best they might. But those fleeing from, captured Bilbao along the coast road toward Santander were treated every few hours to bombardment of the road by such Rightist warships as the Almirante Cervera and Velasco (see map). Torrential rains made the road a sloshy ribbon of mud upon which people screamed, died and were blown to bits as shells came hurtling in from...