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...plenty was happening on both sides to keep correspondents busy. Madrid observers reported that masses of troops and a dusty serpent of nearly 1,000 motor trucks were climbing the ridges, moving north for a final assault on Santander, last important stronghold of the starving Basque defenders of Bilbao...
Basis of the Italian plan was to do something quickly to restore Italy's battered military prestige. Santander, once the favorite yachting centre of the Basque Riviera, is less protected by mountains than is Bilbao. There are not more than 5,000 exhausted Basque militiamen to guard it, and though Valencia has been able to sneak a few planes through to Santander in recent weeks, a service it could not perform for Bilbao, the overwhelmingly superior Rightist forces on the Basque front ought to be able to capture Santander in less than a week, any time the order...
...Bilbao, Spain: Bad place to be left. Good clean boyish fun if of a boisterous nature may incur trouble with the police...
...President Don Manuel Azana who last week was in Valencia. Few days after the Rightists mourned Calvo Sotelo, they celebrated with bullfights and fiestas last week the day on which they rose against Republicans, Socialists, Anarchists and Communists of Spain. Last week British-owned ore mines near Bilbao (now Rightist) had taken from them the first shipload of ore dispatched to Adolf Hitler...
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...