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...their experienced officers, leaving only inexperienced men in command; 2) the Franco fleet was rein forced by Italian submarines, destroyers and lesser craft. Both sides lost heavily during the war. There were about eight engagements during which the Franco fleet's most notable losses were the battle ship España and the cruiser Baleares, Besides losing several submarines, the Loyalist battleship Jaime I, "pride of the fleet," was irreparably damaged, is now laid up at Cartagena...
...Burgos, capital of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Insurgent Spain, the press blithely ducked Mr. Roosevelt's condemnation of aggressors and his recommendation that the U. S. neutrality law be revised to forestall them. "The shoe," remarked the Insurgent newsorgan, Voz de España, "does not fit Burgos...
...Luis Diez crept back to Gibraltar, and was beached in shallow water behind the Mole. That afternoon the British destroyer Vanoc gave Rightist and Leftist dead a sea burial. For the superior Rightist Navy the battle was partial revenge for the sinking a year ago of its battleship España, the torpedoing last winter of its cruiser Baleares...
That was on July 18, 1936. Five days earlier Europe had been warned of the extent of unrest in Spain by the murder of Monarchist Deputy José Calvo Sotelo, onetime Finance Minister, at that time head of the Monarchist organization Renovatión Española. He had been taken from his Madrid apartment by uniformed Assault Guards of the Spanish Government, delivered dead to a cemetery caretaker. Sensing a big story, knowing that armed guards were patrolling Spanish cities, newshawks in Paris woke up string correspondents along the Spanish border, put in a call to Oran, in French...
...fugitives, killed scores more in clashes in the dense thickets of the Navarre border territory. A few prisoners managed to escape to France and there revealed that many of those who took part in the escape were not Leftist prisoners of war but Rightists, members of the Falange Española, clapped in jail for attempting a revolt against Rightist Generalissimo Franco...