Word: cervera
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...shipping. From the Bahamas, Jamaica and Martinique, Civil War blockade runners made their night-bound, fog-shrouded dashes to Charleston and Wilmington. And in 1898, the Caribbean was invaded by an inept Spanish Fleet. It had the U. S. Atlantic seaboard in a dither of fright until old Admiral Cervera holed up in Santiago, Cuba, finally came out to have his ships shot down like ducks in a shooting gallery by a U. S. Fleet which was short on strategic reconnaissance, long on guns...
...between Cuba and Haiti, lies the Caribbean's central and most used sea gate: the deep, so-mile-wide Windward Passage. Commanding the passage is the U. S. Navy's leased station on Cuba's Guantanamo Bay, only a few miles from the rusting hulls of Cervera's armada...
Died. Dr. William Wallace Whitelock, 70, newspaperman, author, educator, Spanish-American war hero (he headed a party that rescued Admiral Cervera from the wrecked Spanish flagship Maria Tere a); after a brief illness; in Manhattan...
...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...