Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early next morning the rebel garrison marched dumbly through the gates of Jaca, straight down the main road to Huesca. At the head of the column, their arms trussed behind them, were two hostages, General Las Heras, Military Governor of Huesca, and his aide...
...little village of Ayerbe, about half way between the two towns, the advancing rebels ran smack into a Federal force. A battery of artillery held the road, their six guns leveled. Rebel scouts ran forward, shouting Viva la Republica, believing these troops were friendly too. An officer's arm dropped. A roaring point-blank artillery broadside tore great holes in the screaming, terrified column. Wrote an eyewitness reporter...
...latest attempt at revolution in Spain stopped as quickly as it had started, but bloodshed did not stop so soon. Next day two of the surviving rebel officers of the Jaca garrison were tried and shot by a firing squad. Four others were sentenced to life imprisonment...
...place called Tu Mu (near Huai Lai-hsien) they waited five hours for a train only to find it a freight bursting with rebel soldiers retreating before the influx of troops from Manchuria. Minister Johnson climbed aboard, "rode the rods" to Kalgan, kept the soldiers in high Chinese glee by translating some of his more successful U. S. anecdotes...
...Paulo was still struggling vainly to secure Horton Hoover's release or at least to find out officially why he was in jail, seemed significant to South Americans, doubly significant to Central Americans. Correspondents understood that Airman Hoover's offense was to have bombed the rebel lines, but this could not be confirmed...