Word: vizcaya
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beleaguered Bilbao, Though British freighters finally 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...
...only to be crushed by its flailing tail, Filipinos began to think differently when the backlash of the typhoon curled back and caught northern Luzon. The fury of the storm had abated but the heavens over the three northwestern provinces of the island suddenly liquefied. Through those provinces-Nueva Vizcaya, Isabela, Cagayan-flows the Rio Grande de Cagayan, biggest river of the Philippines, due north through 200 miles of rich farming country. The typhoon passed, the rain stopped and then came calamity. The Cagayan began to rise...
...poles. Reports from another village indicated that there were 75 persons missing; 54 villages were known to be submerged; people crouching on the roofs of their houses were carried away screaming in the flood. After aerial surveys the Red Cross reported some 1,500 square miles inundated in Nueva Vizcaya, 2,000 square miles in Isabela; homeless, 80,000, missing, 1,000, known dead...