MUSSOLINI CONGRATULATES FRANCO
“SUPERB VICTORY IN BARCELONA” LONDON, 28th January. Signor Mussolini has telegraphed to General Franco emphasising Italy’s enthusiasm at the “superb victory in Barcelona.” and anticipating an early completion of the conquest and new era for Spain. General Franco, replying, paid a tribute to the “magnificent Blackshirts, who, with their Spanish comrades, wrote a glorious page against international Communism.” TROUBLE IN GIBRALTAR GIBRALTAR, 27th January. The police made a baton charge on ; 1000 British demonstrators outside the ; offices of the Burgos Agency, who j were shouting, “Down with Franco and Mussolini.”
The agency was holding a reception to celebrate the fall of Barcelona, and voices inside replied, “Down with England.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 30 January 1939, Page 7
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