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Spaniards are poor marksmen and worse at close order drill, but they do not run away. Not in all the nine months of Spain's civil war has there been anything on either side to match the complete rout of the Italian divisions at Brihuega, and Rightist General Franco and his German and Italian backers were bound to make that defeat good last week. More than prestige was at stake in the attack on Bilbao. Bilbao captured should give the Rightists control of the Biscay coast, remove serious military pressure on their rear, allow thousands...
Guernica, Rightist planes attacking Bilbao under General Emilio Mola were German Heinkel and Junkers bombers, proven inferior to the Russian planes called chato (snub-nosed) by the Loyalists. On the advice of German aviators and with the approval of Generalissimo Franco, General Mola ordered the stupidest move of his entire military career: a punitive air raid on Guernica, 12 miles northeast of Bilbao...
...Holy City" to a furnace. Skimming the roof tops, fighting planes followed with all machine guns popping, harrying terrified peasants through the fields, sending them sprawling in their own blood. Over 800 men, women and children were killed. The munitions factory and barracks, untouched, were later seized by advancing Rightist infantry...
...General Franco's blockade of Bilbao with impunity, making preparations to evacuate as many women and children as possible to France, England and Scandinavia. Out of Bilbao harbor last week came the British freighter Knitsley, loaded with Basque iron ore for Welsh steel mills. Six miles offshore the Rightist destroyer Velasco and the Espana, only battleship in General Franco's navy, steamed up, the Velasco firing shots across the Knitsley's, bow. With helm hard alee the Knitsley started to run back to the shelter of nearby Santander, still held by Leftists. High in the air there...
...Yaleman, intends to devote 68 LIFE-sized pages each quarter to a thorough pictorial takeout of one current subject. Photo-History: I devoted itself to the Spanish Civil War. On its cover a squad of male & female Government Milicianos bang away across a valley of olive trees at their Rightist foes. Inside, the bloody story of the long, internecine struggle is graphically set forth in a series of montages of news-photographs, newspaper headlines, charts and maps. At 35?, 100,000 copies of Photo-History: I were gobbled up in a week. Forthcoming issues of Editor Storrs's quarterly...