JACA RISING.
SENTENCES PASSED. United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Corvrlght (Received March 18, 5.5 p.m.) MADRID, March 17. At a court martial at Huesca, the eighty-one officers and men involved in the Jaca rising were sentenced. Captain Sebiles was sentenced to death, and four others to life imprisonment. [A previous message stated that the court martial had opened at Huesca, of seventy-seven military prisoners, including five officers, concerned in the Republican rising last year. General Franco, brother of the exiled major, is a member of the Court. The reading of the indictment of over two thousand pages, was expected to occupy three days. Death sentences were being demanded for five and life imprisonment for sixty-six.]
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18830, 19 March 1931, Page 9
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114JACA RISING. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18830, 19 March 1931, Page 9
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