"It was on a Saturday, I remember uly' 18);" said Mrs, Jover. "We Were then living on the ouisiirts of Barcelona, and a friend of ours who was In the police warned us that something was going to happen, and Advised us fo come Into the' elly. We had some relatives living further out, and he told us to tell them to come into the city, too.
"But, of course, we didn't take any notlee,'for no one thought anything would come of it. We went to bed that night without guy worries. The ext morning we were awakened by cannons roaring and the fre of machine-guns and rifles, We did not Tave the house, and therefore did not see any of the actual Aghting. But we saw quite a number of people shot, For days afterwards all the Mredls were deserted except for on Seeastonal ambulance or a party of armed men.
"Tt was quite a usual thing to hear a few shots being fired In one of the houses down the street. The shooting would stop, and then a witte while afterwards an ambulance would arrive to take away the dead and the wounded, We ould loo out carefully through the front windows our house and see a number of dead people lying around. in the the priests either had been killed or had managed to flee to safety, every now and then one would be dragged Out of his place of hiding and strung on the nearest tree. Huge pletures of Lenin and Trotsky stared down on one from everywhere, while the Red Flag was predominant on all official and large public buildings.
'Occasionally, two or three aeroplanes would suddenly appear over the city, and would drop a few bombs before' fying away, while at night an occasional outburst of rife-fire Would arouse "the neighbourhood, Loyalist workers found it rather a holiday, she said, for although all the factories had closed down, the hands continued to draw their wages: Since the factories are drawing. on their bank accounts for this purpose, indiations are that this will not last very long.
'A daily aeroplane service is main. tained by the French between Barce-Jona and Marseilles, said Mrs. Jover, but a steier watch is kept upon those travelling by the "planes by the govermment. All those who have been able to secure permission to leave have done will do. s0_a8 soon possible, she went on. This applies only to foreigners, for the Government has issued orders that no Spanish citizen may leave unless over the age of sixty years.
'Mrs. Jover was more fortunate. When' she left Shanghai, the local Spanish Consulate inscribed on her passport "Spanish by marriage." After certain number of preliminary ne-illations, she was able to. secure permission to make the two-hour Aight out of Barcelona to Marseilles and safely: Her husband, of course, was "not given similar. permission, and was forced to remain in Spain. He is making strenuous efforts, she said, to prevent being called upon to proceed to the Catalonian battle front to fight with the Government forces, but. whether he is still suc~ cessful in this or not, she does not know, 7
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