Word: bilbao
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Close to 100 Leftist soldiers per hour surrendered to the Rightists last week as they pressed their methodical advance in North Spain from captured Bilbao toward Santander. This city's normal population is only 85,000 and last week 400,000 retreating Leftists and hostages jammed it almost beyond bearing, with food running crucially short. Daily Spanish civilians escaped on British merchant ships convoyed by British warships. In Leftist Spain the situation was recognized to be so desperate that Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin and his Foreign Minister Jose Girál Pereira piled into an airplane, flew...
...match this from the other side of the war, United Pressman Reynolds Packard cabled "My greatest scare of the Spanish War" from Rightist-captured Bilbao. During the Rightist advance "I flopped down behind the first shelter I saw-a fat pig which was sleeping against a tree." cabled Mr. Packard. "I must have snuggled too closely for the pig's comfort, because suddenly it reared up, grunted and started to waddle away...
Atrocity of the Week. In captured Bilbao, the Irish Free State Minister to Spain, Mr. L. H. Kerney, reported after minute investigation the assassination by Anarchists, before they evacuated Bilbao, of Miss Bridget Boland, 56. an Irish governess employed for the past 37 years by a Spanish family...
Miss Boland had been visited by His Majesty's Vice Consul John Innes who assured her that so long as she retained and exhibited her British passport she would be safe. Just before Bilbao fell, retreating Anarchists accused Miss Boland of having packed her bags, explaining that this was a sign of Rightist sympathies and that they were finishing off all such "traitors." She showed them her British passport. Tearing it up before her eyes, they proceeded to slay Governess Boland, a crime to which numerous Spanish witnesses testified...
...time more than 100 ships were going for each other in the sky, ten were shot down, and it had been sufficiently demonstrated that the Leftists have a fine stable of aircraft in reserve which Moscow is saving to defend Madrid rather than wasting them in the defense of Bilbao and Santander...