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...Spanish Basque harbor of Bilbao, H. M. S. Hood, most potent warboat in the world, plowed ponderously through mountainous waves with Vice Admiral Geoffrey Blake on its quarterdeck. Between the Hood and the harbor was the ancient Spanish battleship España, flagship of the Rightist fleet, and a half-dozen battered codfish trawlers armed with machine guns. Less than 100-mi. away a half-dozen British freighters were in the harbor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, loaded with food for beleaguered Leftist Bilbao, but by orders from London the Hood, with all the awesomeness of its 15-inch guns...
...fervent vow "to redouble labor for victory." To Spanish President Manuel Azaña came a cable of good wishes from Japan's Emperor Hirohito, indicating that Japan has no intention of recognizing the Insurgent regime of General Francisco Franco. Unperturbed, General Franco wiped the anniversary from the Rightist calendar, decreed a fiesta for May 2 to mark "the first triumphal year" of his revolt which began last July. The discrepancy of two months he overlooked in order to offset the "Red" May Day events which will be observed elsewhere in Europe...
Though the Leftists had the best of last week's fighting, the Rightists showed no sign of cracking and the end of the war seemed as far off as ever. Most 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...
...spark of humanity relieved the savage horror of the civil war last week. With Rightist corpses strewn over the El Pardo sector, just northwest of Madrid, General Franco passed word from trench to trench to ask the Leftists for a brief truce during which he might bury his dead. The Leftists gave the cease-fire order and Franco's stretcher-bearers gathered up crumpled bodies while guns in other sectors boomed a gruesome requiem...
...Pirates." Rightist warships blockading the port of Bilbao, and keeping off British ships which were trying to deliver food which the Leftists had bought in England, were "pirates" in the eyes of London which ordered His Majesty's mighty warship Hood to the scene. Excitement over this slumped when the British Cabinet, covertly favorable to Franco, advised British ships not to try to enter Bilbao as the harbor might have been mined. This ingenious supposition enabled His Majesty's Government to achieve much the same blockade objective as that of the "pirates" without being in the least piratical...