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Normal business in Barcelona was suspended as the Loyalist Government called out all men under 55 to dig trenches and build fortifications on the city's outskirts. Women replaced men in restaurants, hotels, gasoline stations, shops, factories. The U. S. cruiser Omaha was called from Villefranche, France, to pick up 30 U. S. citizens still remaining in the city, while the British cruiser Devonshire and destroyer Greyhound stood by off Barcelona ready to aid the exit of Britons...
...Cruiser Foch, M. Daladier proceeded to Algiers, where Arab chieftains and Zouave and Spahi detachments accompanied him to a monument for Algerian War dead. Here M. Daladier summed up the impressions of his trip: "The Colonials are French-they will stay French...
Instead of prudently turning back the Loyalist destroyer rounded Europa Point, Gibraltar's southernmost tip. As she did so a Rebel cruiser hove into sight from the African shore. Six more Rebel warships, cruisers, destroyers, minelayers soon joined the chase. Guns from the 10,000-ton cruiser Carnarias, pride of the Rebel fleet, boomed. Batteries from Ceuta. in Rebel-held Spanish Morocco, some 15 miles across the Straits, bellowed. The destroyer, outclassed, nonetheless elected to fight. A shell struck the Jose Luis Diez's forecastle, killed four men. One of her own guns exploded and killed more...
...leader's body left Istanbul later on the Turkish battle cruiser Yavuz, was accompanied to Ismid by the entire Turkish fleet and by British, French, German, Russian, Greek and Rumanian warships. At Ismid the body was transferred to a special train for Ankara, the capital, where. after a State funeral, the Ethnographic Museum furnished a temporary tomb...
Last week the little King, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb & Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half-Brother of the Sun, Possessor of the Four & Twenty Golden Umbrellas, stood at attention aboard a bedecked Siamese cruiser as it slid up to Bangkok's water front. Popping his stork neck under the traditional nine-tiered umbrella, symbol of regal power, King Ananda strode down the red-carpeted gangplank to greet the three royal Regents who have ruled in his absence. Strong Man Phya Phahol judiciously kept in the background. Along the city streets, as His Majesty jounced...