They armed themselves and presented the government with its second fait accompli.
The mum of the second of the ex-Keith-264 women said that she went to Spain for a picnic in 1936 (her dad was in the navy and based at Gibraltar) and several men in flat caps dragged a priest up the road, stuck him against a wall and shot him. She thought that it was a Spanish custom but it turned out to be the first day of the civil war.