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In what sense is every element of $H_2(G)$ "represented by a free action on some surface"

(This is a cross-post of this unanswered math.stackexchange question) In Edmond's 1982 paper Surface Symmetry II, at the bottom of page 145, he writes: "Corollary - If $G$ is a split nonabelian ...