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Loudly the Italian press hailed the occupation of Bilbao, second seaport and seventh city in Spain, as a great Italian victory and complete revenge for the rout at Guadalajara, but in Bilbao itself Rightist General José Fidel Davila, knowing the growing unpopularity of all foreign troops with Spaniards of either side, was careful to keep the Black Arrow Italian division well in the background. It was the red berets of the Carlist Royalist militia that first appeared in the streets, patrolled the city...
...Rightist activity. At the time of his death, Mola was responsible not only for the siege of Bilbao but for the siege of Madrid as well. With no capable successor to hand, Generalissimo Franco split Mola's command in two. To the Bilbao front went General José Fidel Davila, a desk officer who had been head of the "technical junta." Put in charge of the Madrid, Aragón and Soria fronts was bleary-eyed old General Andres Saliquet, who looks very much like Cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather's famed Old Bill...
Spurred by the death of Mola, Basque Leftists counterattacked viciously around Bilbao, regained much precious ground with heavy losses to the Rebels. To celebrate his new command Rightist General Fidel Davila ordered a massed attack on the important peak and town of Lemona. At the end of 24 hours Basque forces were still holding out. Star witness of the Lemona attack was Archduke Otto von Habsburg, pretender to the thrones of Austria and Hungary.* At the front to visit his youthful uncle. Prince Gaëtan of Bourbon-Parma, and accompanied by another uncle, Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma...
This week General Fidel Davila, taking over the Bilbao sector for the Rightists, won praise from Franco by loosing a thunderbolt attack on the Basque defenses. A monster fleet of 63 airplanes sent bombs whistling into the suburb of Lezama, more into the trenches at strategic Lemona Mountain. After heavy artillery preparation and machine gun strafing from the air, 30 tanks lumbered up the slope followed by Rightist infantry. Announced the Insurgents: "The hill is entirely in our hands...
...Tough little Thomas ("Seaman Tom") Watson. British featherweight champion, who was humiliated last fortnight when N. Y. Athletic Commissioners publicly doubted whether he was competent to oppose first-rate U. S. fighters: a 12-round bout-after being knocked down three times in the first two rounds-against sluggish Fidel La Barba, one-time world's flyweight champion, who was a 4-to-1 favorite; in Madison Square Garden. Seaman Tom's reward: a fight against Cuban Kid Chocolate (who was last week being refused entry into the U. S. by immigration authorities), for the featherweight championship...