EXECUTION OF REBELS
TWO GENERALS WIEET THEIR FATE. BEFORE 500 SPECTATORS. (Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 12.20 p.m.) Barcelona, August 12. Five hundred spectators, including officials and journalists, watched the execution of General Goded, who wore a military uniform stripped of his insignia of rank, and General Burriel, who wore peasant clothes. The news was broken to General Goded and General Burriel at 1 a.m. that they must face the firing squad. General Burriel's wife and daughter boarded the vessel at 2.30 a.m. to say farewell. The condemned men were escorted ashore and marched into Montjuich fortress. Death Faced Bravely. As dawn was breaking they stood with their backs to the wall after refusing to have their eyes bandaged. Indeed, General Goded smoked a last cigarette as he looked death in the a' volley killed General Burriel instantly, but General Goded fell wounded, necessitating a revolver shot from an officer. The crowds filed past the bodies crying, “Viva la Republica!”
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4883, 13 August 1936, Page 5
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