June 21th, 2005, Barcelona (1)
End of April - May 5th
Since the end of April, Spain had been a big mess. Pressed with more urgent matters, no one had bothered about them. Urquhart was focusing on the invasion of the Union of Britain, Berlin and St. Petersbourg in the crossing of the Rhine and Clooney was strsangely apathetic now that the landings in Englad were succesful and the Enetnte armies were marching South.
Since the end of April there had been a twin administation in Spain. Once, based around Field Marshal Enric Querol and General Saavedra in Barcelona, and the other one in Madrid, with Dueñas. However, this situation was broken around May 5th. Dueñas was ruling in Madrid with the hellp of an anarchist leader, Wenceslao Mera. Since the very beginning, Dueñas's chief of staff, colonel Cipriano Casado, was in pay of Ottawa. His link with the Mi5 was an agent called Noel Howard.
Bit by bit Howard was able to persuade Casado that Mera was behind another coup, this time an anarchist one, and he began to move to destroy the coup before it was born. If that coup ever existed is something that only Howard could say.
While Casado mobilized some units of the garrison, some other reamined quartered, not knowing what was going on. Ironically, was the CNT central zone defense committee leaders Manuel Val and Eduardo Salgado learned that their comrade Mera was preparing a coup, they decided to move first to arrest him to avoid what they considered an awful event that only could bring doom to the new born Republic.
Thus, when Casado heard that CNT troops were on the streets of Madrid, he rushed to inform Dueñas and to order the troops to open fire against hte anarchist "traitors", but not in this order, to be precise.
End of April - May 5th
Since the end of April, Spain had been a big mess. Pressed with more urgent matters, no one had bothered about them. Urquhart was focusing on the invasion of the Union of Britain, Berlin and St. Petersbourg in the crossing of the Rhine and Clooney was strsangely apathetic now that the landings in Englad were succesful and the Enetnte armies were marching South.
Since the end of April there had been a twin administation in Spain. Once, based around Field Marshal Enric Querol and General Saavedra in Barcelona, and the other one in Madrid, with Dueñas. However, this situation was broken around May 5th. Dueñas was ruling in Madrid with the hellp of an anarchist leader, Wenceslao Mera. Since the very beginning, Dueñas's chief of staff, colonel Cipriano Casado, was in pay of Ottawa. His link with the Mi5 was an agent called Noel Howard.
Bit by bit Howard was able to persuade Casado that Mera was behind another coup, this time an anarchist one, and he began to move to destroy the coup before it was born. If that coup ever existed is something that only Howard could say.
While Casado mobilized some units of the garrison, some other reamined quartered, not knowing what was going on. Ironically, was the CNT central zone defense committee leaders Manuel Val and Eduardo Salgado learned that their comrade Mera was preparing a coup, they decided to move first to arrest him to avoid what they considered an awful event that only could bring doom to the new born Republic.
Thus, when Casado heard that CNT troops were on the streets of Madrid, he rushed to inform Dueñas and to order the troops to open fire against hte anarchist "traitors", but not in this order, to be precise.
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