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Said Catholic Canon Alberto Onoindia of Valladolid Cathedral...
...Priests Hanged." When nine priests disguised as fishermen slipped from Spain over the Bay of Biscay to France last week and talked to correspondents, out went such headlines as SIX HUNDRED PRIESTS AND NUNS SLAIN BY ANARCHISTS. There was also the one about the 82-year-old Archbishop of Valladolid killed by a firing squad with his arms tied around the neck of a statue of the Virgin Mary fortnight ago. Last week the Archbishop arrived safely at Bordeaux. In Irun, which the White forces took after its Anarchist defenders burned it (TIME, Sept. 14), no confirmation could...
...tarred and burned while the Bishop of Jaén was slaughtered along with his aged mother and his sister, in whose corsets had been found 8,000,000 pesetas in Government bonds (TIME, Aug. 10). In Burgos Rebel headquarters, the Archbishops of that city, of Valencia and of Valladolid held a ceremony of reparation in the Cathedral...
...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 by the Moroccan rebels, skirmished in Burgos, Pamplona, Valladolid and Zaragoza. Government planes soared over strongholds dropping, first bombs, then leaflets urging soldiers to rebel against their rebellious officers...
Manifestoed General Franco from Morocco: "Spain is saved! The Provinces of Andalusia, Valencia, Valladolid, Burgos, Aragon, the Canaries and the Balearic Islands, with their garrisons and civil forces, have joined enthusiastically with us. Only Madrid made an exception in sending its planes to bombard cities and towns without defense, killing women and children. . . . We will demand accounts from them as well as from those still on the fence...