The Archive · 1938

Spain Cheered Homecoming Marked by Joyous Acclaim

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Naples, Oct, 21.

The home-coming yesterday of 10,000 Italian volunteers from Spain was attended by the wild enthusiasm of vast crowds, as the troops marched in the streets after disembarking from four transports, King Victor Emmanuel, Crown Prince Humbert and Count Galeazzo Ciano, the Foreign Minister, who represented the Government, took the salute on the royal stand.

The streets were gay with flags and there was popular rejoicing at the return of the legionaries, who had been away for eighteen months.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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