Word: melilla
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...this sultry, tense atmosphere, some Socialists last week leaned out of their headquarters windows in the North African garrison town of Melilla in Spanish Morocco and brashly booed a regiment of the famed Spanish Foreign Legion, marching home from drill. The Legionnaires broke ranks, threw the Socialists out their own windows. At this a huge revolt, carefully planned, erupted into plain view and silence descended on Spain...
General Francisco Franco Bahamonde deserted his post on the Canary Islands, hastened to Melilla, took charge of some 20,000 rebellious Legionnaires, regulars and Moorish native troops. Within a day the rebels controlled all Spanish Morocco, a 200-mile strip of coast across from Gibraltar. When they began broadcasting from the Ceuta radio station, pretending to be the Seville station, announcing the surrender of Madrid to the rebels, sympathetic Army garrisons throughout European Spain joined the revolt. They were defeated in Barcelona and Seville but seized the southern ports of Cádiz and Málaga for a landing...
...tortuous Riffian bridle paths, Frenchmen pondered the history of their captive. His fluent Spanish rose naturally to the lips of a Riffian born in easy circumstances, the son of a Judge, who until about 1917 served as a clerk in the Spanish Oficina Indigena (Bureau of National Activities) at Melilla and grew incensed at the shameless corruption of Spain's administration of northern Morocco under the protectorate convention...
General Sanjurjo's sector at Melilla has been entrusted to Brigadier General Castro Girona; while the exceedingly important Ceuta area has been entrusted to General Berenguer...
...last week saw plenty of fighting in Morocco. Along the northern concave side of the sausage which is Mediterranean Coast, the Spanish made a landing and bit out a little piece of enemy territory near Ajdir. The troops were embarked at Melilla to the east and cruised along the Riff coast for two days with convoying battleships, both French and Spanish, shelling enemy works. After two feints, one morning the battleship Paris steamed into Alhucemas Bay and began to shell the Riff positions at the main beach. For four hours the bombardment with 12½-in. guns continued. The Riffs...