Word: bilbao
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...days later Sir John Reith, chief of British Broadcasting Corp., decided that he, too, would give the Basque children a treat. To the tent-city near Southampton where 2,000 of the refugees are being housed, he went with a radio van. When news came that Bilbao had fallen (see p. 20), Sir John, against the advice of the camp's Basque officials, decided to broadcast the bad news...
...long last, on the 80th day of siege, last week Bilbao, the city that has scorned capture for 700 years and the motto of whose red, white and green flag was INVINCIBLE, fell. At the end hardly a shot was fired. But every bridge across the Nervión River had been blown up as was the great Guecho arms factory, one of the prime prizes in Franco's drive on Bilbao. As was expected, Anarchists ran berserk for a few hours before the city was abandoned, murdered many a suspected Rightist sympathizer. As the Rightists moved...
...Valencia Government did what it could last week to relieve pressure on Bilbao. It kept the Aragon front crackling with action. Against Cordoba in the south a major drive was started. For the first time in weeks Leftist planes bombed the outskirts of Salamanca, field headquarters of Generalissimo Franco...
President de Aguirre admitted the fall of Zamudio and Derio. suburban villages, cried, ''Bilbao never has been captured ... I swear to you it will not fall now." Back and forth over bloody Mount Santo Domingo on the northern shoulder of San Marina Ridge swept the hand-to-hand fighting. Five flights of German or Italian-built bombers poured death onto the hillsides. Four battalions of Rightists held the Santa Maria heights. Basque defenders, punished beyond belief reformed for their last desperate resistance to the grim, tightening circle with which Generalissimo Francisco Franco hoped finally to extinguish the proud...
...they have been beaten at the Parque del Oeste, they have been beaten at the Pardo, they have been beaten at Carabanchel, they have been beaten on the Jarama. they have been beaten at Brihuega and at Córdoba, and they are being fought to a standstill at Bilbao. Every time they are beaten in the field they salvage that strange thing they call their honor, by murdering civilians...