Word: zaragoza
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...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...
Toot! toot! the Duke of Zaragoza used to blow the locomotive whistle of Spam's Royal Train, for His Grace was Hereditary Engineer to the Royal Family...
When Queen Victoria Eugenie "fled from Spain" it was the Duke of Zaragoza who opened the throttle, made the royal wheels go round and tooted a last loyal farewell ? then promptly turned Republican...
Merrily last week Spain's Presidential Train chuffed from Valencia to Madrid carrying President Alcala Zamora, driven by the Duke of Zaragoza with many a toot! toot...
...strike got under way slowly. Members of other unions in the Telefonica refused to go out with the Syndicalists, nearly normal service was maintained for three days. Then wire-cutters got to work. Somewhere in the desolate tableland south of Zaragoza the main line to Barcelona was severed. Other snippers cut Spain from the outside world for a time by breaking the international line just outside Madrid...