REJOICING IN SPAIN
END OF CIVIL WAR
CARNIVAL AT BURGOS
EX-SOLDIERS' RELIEF
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)
(Received May 19, 9.30 a.m.) BURGOS, May 18.
Two days of celebrations officially marking the end of the civil war began this morning in all provinces. The firing of rockets at 8 a.m. announced a public holiday in Burgos, after which, following the Spanish custom, quaint effigies representing Ferdinand the Second and Queen Isabella and the peoples of their dominions, paraded in carnival fashion through the streets, headed by dancers in period costume. A State gazette publishes a decree providing relief for ex-servicemen and their families in the interval between the demobilisation and the resumption of work. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 116, 19 May 1939, Page 9
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112REJOICING IN SPAIN Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 116, 19 May 1939, Page 9
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