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September 22, 1936

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Headlines from September 22, 1936

NEW GERMAN ARMY DISPLAYS ITS MIGHT; Several Corps With Tanks and Planes in 'Kaiser Manoeuvres,' Largest Since '14. CITIZENS GET WAR ORDERS Secret Instructions Tell Where to Report and What to Take if Mobilization Is Decreed.

By Otto D. Tolischuswireless To the New York Times

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MAQUEDA OCCUPIED, INSURGENTS REPORT; TOLEDO NEXT GOAL; Communique Announces Fall of Southern Key to Madrid -- Some Rebels Beyond Town. HEAVY FIGHTING IN REGION Loyalists Are Routed in Battle at Santa Olalla -- Mola's Men Fight Way Nearer Bilbao.

By Frank L. Kluckhohnspecial Cable To the New York Times

CACERES, Spain, Sept. 21 (By Telephone to Lisbon). -- The town of Maqueda, key to Toledo and intended by the Madrid Government to be the Spanish Verdun, was occupied today by General Francisco Franco's Foreign Legion, Rebel headquarters announced tonight.

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Rebels Hold Santa Olalla; MAQUEDA OCCUPIED, INSURGENTS REPORT

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

SANTA OLALLA, Spain, Sept. 21. -- This hamlet, the gateway to Maqueda, was in the hands of Rebel troops today after desperate fighting that cost hundreds of lives.

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