Word: durango
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rightist Spain's war. Tour No. 1 will run from burned Irun, on the French border, to Oviedo, scene of 15 months' fierce siege. Tour No. 2 will go from Tuy to Santander. Both tours will include such partially or wholly destroyed towns as Eibar, Guernica, Durango, Gijón, each a scene of important military engagements in Generalissimo Franco's last year's wiping out of the autonomous Basque Republic of Euzkadi, ally of Leftist Spain. The nearest front nowadays will be 150 miles away...
Early in the week the Irun staff officer's complacence seemed fully justified. Durango fell, mile after mile the Basques fell back with little artillery, no foreign technicians and practically no air force, fell back again & again toward a triple ring of concrete trenches, last stand in defense of their capital. Then two things happened, both...
...succeeded in getting food supplies to the hungry Basques of Bilbao (see p. 19), this last Leftist stronghold of the northwest seemed crumbling at week's end. After weeks of hard fighting and skilled maneuver in the mountains of Vizcaya Province, the Rightists under General Mola finally captured Durango and Eibar, key towns, but 16 and 25 mi. from Bilbao. With Eibar in flames and the road to Bilbao teeming with Basque troops in "headlong flight," rumor spread from Hendaye on the French frontier that the Loyalists in Bilbao had asked foreign diplomats at Saint-Jean...
...critical battle of the week was to the southeast of Bilbao, the Basque capital which Rightist General Emilio Mola was determined to storm or starve out. Backward and forward swung the bloody struggle for the heights of Saibi Peak guarding the plains five miles from the key city of Durango. Besieged by land, blockaded by sea Bilbao's war-swollen population of 350,000 was reported eating cats and seagulls. Gritting his teeth, Basque President José Antonio de Aguirre y Lecube declared: "We are in good shape...
...great a volume of oranges and sherry as last year from "Business as Usual" Spain-the only difference being that this year the British have had to pay cash. North of Madrid last week the Rightist offensive of General Mola against the Basques (TIME, April 12) won through Durango, but slightly behind schedule, and he had not yet taken Bilbao. A Mola objective had been to force Leftists to relax their siege of the Rightists in Oviedo who have held out stubbornly during the whole war, and this Mola accomplished, for thousands of Asturian besiegers had to be withdrawn from...