SKIRMISH IN BRUSSELS.
REBELS OCCUPY CONSULATE
(Independent Cable Service.) BBUSSELS, Feb. 17
Spanish rebel representatives occupied the Republican Consulate in Brussels and forced the occupants to leave, following Belgium’s de facto recognition of General Franco. Police later arrived at the Consulate and told the rebels to leave, but the rebels refused. More police and firemen arrived and struggled with eight rebels who bad appeared on the balcony with a flag which they cut up and fashioned into sashes, shouting “Vive Franco.” The police took them to the Palais do Justice after a brief skirmish.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 70, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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