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...artillery and infantry garrison has rebelled," she whispered excitedly. "Agitators are running through the streets shouting 'Viva la Republica!' Hundreds of citizens have fled to the mountains. The rebels have killed two civil guards and one carabinier in street fights. They have mounted cannon inside the old Roman walls. Tomorrow they march against Huesca. They say that Major Franco is leading the rebels, but nobody has seen him. They...
...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...
Last week's plan sets apart 56 of the men as Consultants in Religion. Any academic president or professor who wants advice on social or religious matters may write to any of the 56.* If a Consultant lives in the college town he will give viva voce advice. If he must travel, his expenses should be paid...
...with riflemen. Second night of the scare, 5,000 Irigoyen followers, who love their elderly President so much that they have given up all party names, call themselves Personalistas Irigoyenistas, paraded through the streets. Just what they were parading for few seemed to know. Told to shout, they shouted Viva Irigoyen! Viva La Dictadura!* till they were hoarse, then varied the monotony by reviving century-old civil war tocsins: "Death to the Unitarian Savages! Long Live the Holy Federation!" A few wags cheered "El Torito de Matadoros," champion Argentine Boxer Justo Suarez, now attached to the Argentine consulate in Manhattan...
...motor to the Peruvian border and safety. The General too escaped and is now said to be making for Hamburg. Last week Frau Gertrude Kundt and Fraülein Renate arrived in Manhattan. Said they: ''It [Bolivia] is a terrible place. One day it is 'Viva General Kundt.' The next day it is 'Abatto! Abatto!'* ... A man gets tired of war sometimes...