Word: macias
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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Suddenly operatives of the French Secret Police, re-enforced by French infantry, pounced-arrested Colonels Garibaldi and Macia and most of their supporters...
Midnight March. The field commander for Colonel Garibaldi was that famed Catalonian patriot, Colonel Francisco Macia. For years he has striven to foment a revolution which should set his native Cataloniaf free from the dominance of Madrid. Last week he rode at midnight toward the Spanish frontier with a glad heart. Were not the invading 400 patriots equipped with rifles, machine guns, a medical corp, and even a strong box heavy with newly designed and minted Catalan money? All was prepared...
Allegedly the Spanish Government, warned by II Duce, held troops in readiness to pounce upon the invading army of Colonel Garibaldi and Colonel Macia last week, if it had ever crossed the frontier. In that event the "invaders" would have been shot, instead of reposing as they now do safe in French jails...