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True or false, the Nazi gunrunning story was taken sufficiently seriously in Madrid last week for the Spanish Government, on France's request, to order a Spanish gunboat and airplanes to Ifni and to transfer troops there from the Ceuta on the Straits of Gibraltar...
General Sanjurjo's sector at Melilla has been entrusted to Brigadier General Castro Girona; while the exceedingly important Ceuta area has been entrusted to General Berenguer...
...ended in success for the Riffians, proving that the French successes of the previous week had in no sense discouraged or reduced the resistance of their enemies. A number of tribal desertions to the Riffians was also reported. Marshal Petain, his face bronzed by the African sun, landed at Ceuta, en route to Paris from the front (TIME, Aug. 3) conversed long and secretly with General Primo Rivera, head of the Spanish military directory. Later, the Marshal disembarked at Marseille. Said...