It got so that even the men who filed the cables grew bored with them. Week after week, month after month they had sent out the same stories: General strike threat. . . . Syndicalists riot in Barcelona. . . . Alfonso denies responsibility. . . . Fall of Government imminent. . . . Street fighting in Asturias and the Basque provinces. . . . Andalusian peasants rebel. . . . Generals arrested. . . . State of alarm declared. . . . State of alarm lifted. . . . All these things were...
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