Word: linea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British engineers at Gibraltar last night barricaded the main road leading from La Linea to the famous British fort guarding the entrance to the Mediterranean. French military and sir attaches from Burgos went to Gibraltar by automobile where they conferred with British commanders...
...with their own eyes. All week long the Leftist consul at Gibraltar went about with pockets stuffed with cash like a racing bookmaker. In driblets, two and three men at a time, Rightist deserters arrived, some in rowboats from Algeciras across the bay, some by land from La Linea across no man's land to neutral ground. Back & forth to British police headquarters went the consul to pay the small fines imposed on the deserters for illegal entry, to arrange to send them on to Valencia...
...golf course, race track, football field. Chief industries are sheep raising, coal mining. Approximately as far south of the Equator as Cartwright, Labrador is north of it, Magallenes is now at the beginning of summer, only time the new airline will be able to function. Operated by Linea Airea Nacional of Chile, the route, an extension of the present Santiago-Puerto Montt Service, will be flown by two Dornier flying boats and a Loening amphibian in addition to the new Sikorskys...
...high good humor the Moroccan rebels launched their invasion of Spain proper. A troopship loaded with Legionnaires put in at Algeciras near Gibraltar. A rebel torpedo boat shelled the undecided garrison at La Linea, which thereupon joined the revolt. But when La Linea citizens, watching black Moorish troops march into barracks, refused to disperse, the Moors mowed them down with machine guns, blasted them with hand grenades, left La Linea's streets littered with dead. In thousands of commandeered cars, the rebels pushed north, fanning out along the railroads leading toward Madrid...