TEMPORARY COUP
FASCISTS AT VALENCIA. RADIO STATION SEIZED. SHORT-LIVED REIGN. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received July 13, 9.35 a.m. MADRID, July 12. A group of well-armed Fascists attacked and occupied the radio transmitting station at Valencia and broadcast the news of their coup, winding up with the cry: “Up Spain! Long iive Fascism!”
Police ejected the Fascists and the staff reoccupied the building. They broadcast the news of the defeat of the Fascists and then played the Spanish National Anthem for twenty minutes to reassure the country, while the population demonstrated in the streets against Fascism and set tire to several Rightist buildings.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 July 1936, Page 7
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105TEMPORARY COUP Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 July 1936, Page 7
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