Foreign News: Blood

Since it was last week's decision of the Great Powers that Spaniards should stew in their own blood, this fearless, heroic and cruel people continued the appalling exhibition which makes modern historians write after each war in Spain that the country is "still in some respects medieval."

While the churches of Barcelona were being pillaged by Reds who dragged out even the mummified corpses of long dead nuns, in Seville the local White commander General Queipo de Llano broadcast this fantastic exhortation:

"The common people are swine. They must be ripped up like swine!...

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