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...bands of anarchists and syndicalists were declaring general strikes, raising red and black flags, setting fire to convents and churches, taking pot shots at Civil Guards and soldiers. Troops were mobilized through most of Spain. Premier Diego Martinez Barrios declared a "State of Alarm," which he explained was not martial law, but the next thing...
...Menafee. During the War, Gus was a seaman on the destroyer Fanning. When a petty officer was said to have attacked him with a monkey-wrench in the Fanning's engine room, Gus whipped a service automatic out of his dungarees and shot him dead. A Navy court martial sentenced Seaman Menafee to be executed by a firing squad, but Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt, to whom capital punishment was abhorrent, acting in the absence of Secretary Daniels, commuted Menafee's sentence to life imprisonment. Last year Prisoner Menafee was released from Atlanta penitentiary on a writ...
...gossip further estranged T. V. and Chiang. Last week Mr. Soong was in effect gloating on the sidelines as Generalissimo Chiang found himself forced to meet the challenge of Fukien and Eugene Chen. Overnight seven steamers were filled with picked troops and dispatched to attack the rebels by sea. Martial law was declared in Shanghai's Chinese quarter. Troop trains roared off to the Fukien land front. From Nanking the Generalissimo sent up thun dering squadrons of airplanes which showered Fukien with bombs and with leaflets reading...
...Naval Court Martial decided. Instead of death the six Japanese Bruti received prison sentences of from 10 to 15 years...
...roared Captain Guillermo Alba Rodriguez at his dawdling orderly last March. When Orderly Juan Rivera shambled in 45 minutes later with breakfast he received a furious frontal kick from hungry Captain Rodriguez, crumpled up and died. Last week kicking Captain Rodriguez was tried by a Mexican court-martial, sentenced to be shot. "This is the first death sentence in the Mexican Army since 1927," announced a careful spokesman for the Court. "In that year General Rueda Quijana was shot for high treason...