Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days that the revolt against him had been crushed. For the third time, however, the old "Savior of Madrid," whose military acumen was never rated very high, seemed likely to be mistaken. The "rebel" forces had been cleared out of the centre of Madrid, but they were still said to be holding important outskirts with 30,000 men. Furthermore, aid to them was on its way from other fronts. The chances were that the Loyalist forces, within plain view of their common enemies, would fight each other until the Franco Army, last week more a spectator than a fighting force...
...Spanish War on the sea, only occasionally an active phase of the fighting, ended abruptly last week when the major part of the Loyalist fleet steamed into the neutral French port of Bizerte, Tunisia, and was interned. In parade formation, still flying the Spanish Republic's red, gold & purple flag, three cruisers, eight destroyers and a number of lesser ships sailed in from revolt-ridden Cartagena, the fleet's base, 600 miles across the Mediterranean. Met by the French cruiser Dupleix and a squadron of French destroyers, the ships were inspected for sanitation, then, their ammunition removed, allowed...
Month ago the estimated number of Spanish refugees on French soil was 380,000. Last week French Minister of the Interior Albert Sarraut revised the estimate upward to 450,000. Moreover, far from decreasing, the refugee population was steadily increasing. Hundreds were still slipping over the Catalan border. The Loyalist Navy's surrender in French Africa last week brought 4,000 more...
...refugees have been classified as 220,000 militiamen, 40,000 able-bodied civilian men, 10,000 wounded, 180,000 women and children. Hospital facilities are limited and primitive. Many men with weeks-old wounds covered by filthy dressings are still unattended. Several hospital ships serve the more seriously wounded and a few of the sick have been transferred to the interior. The refugees have become a danger to the general health of adjacent communities. Families are still separated and rare is the man or woman who is not ceaselessly looking for kin. On one day a local French newspaper published...
...safe bet that Queen Victoria could not have. The Victoria bust will be unveiled next month. Biarritz's mayor explained that the reason for the tribute was that in 1889 Queen Victoria visited Biarritz, and in her train came a flood of tourists which is still flowing...