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...occupants were dead, two officers, the pilot, and mechanic. Twenty-five yards away they found the mangled body of still another officer, wrapped in a worn tan waterproof coat. Round his waist was a general's sash. It was some time before he could be identified: General Emilio Mola, second in command only to Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Longlegged, broadnosed General Mola was in his stocking feet, for ever since a gypsy told him that he was to die with his boots on, Rightist officers explained, he alwrays took his shoes off in airplanes...
Guernica, Rightist planes attacking Bilbao under General Emilio Mola were German Heinkel and Junkers bombers, proven inferior to the Russian planes called chato (snub-nosed) by the Loyalists. On the advice of German aviators and with the approval of Generalissimo Franco, General Mola ordered the stupidest move of his entire military career: a punitive air raid on Guernica, 12 miles northeast of Bilbao...
...friend into the Presidential Palace in 1930, Strong Man Vargas knew he had better act quickly. Back to Porto Alegre flashed a Presidential order relieving Governor Flores da Cunha of his responsibilities as executor of the "state of war" in Rio Grande do Sul, handing them over to General Emilio Lucio Esteves, the State's Federal military commandant. This order in effect gave General Esteves a free hand with 17,000 Federal troops against anything General Flores da Cunha might try with his 30,000 militiamen...
Though the Leftists had the best of last week's fighting, the Rightists showed no sign of cracking and the end of the war seemed as far off as ever. Most critical battle of the week was to the southeast of Bilbao, the Basque capital which Rightist General Emilio Mola was determined to storm or starve out. Backward and forward swung the bloody struggle for the heights of Saibi Peak guarding the plains five miles from the key city of Durango. Besieged by land, blockaded by sea Bilbao's war-swollen population of 350,000 was reported eating...
Already about its holy business in Ethiopia last week was a "Catholic Expeditionary Force," a mission headed by Archbishop Giovanni Maria Emilio Castellani, 49, lately of Rhodes. Under this able Franciscan, Vatican-trained native missionaries, white priests and what the Protestants called "swarms of nuns" were pitching in to "reclaim" 5,000,000 Copts to the Catholic faith, with which the Ethiopian Coptic Church was allied in early times and again for a few years in the 17th Century. From Vatican City came report that Italy and the Church's C. E. F. will follow the British empire-building...