BRITISH NAVY to Convoy Foodships
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BILBAO BLOCKADE Reported Order to Fire On Interfering Craft CABINET SUMMONED
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i (Beceived 13, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, April 12. The Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, presided at a meetIng of Cabinet summoged to consider General Franco's attempt to blockade the loyalist port of Bilbao, in Northern Spain. The Government is issuing a statement on the matter in the Commons toxnorrow. The Daily Telegraph's Saint Jean de Luu correspondent says all the officers of the destroyers Brazen, Beagle and. Blanche were suddenly reealled from ■hore leave to-night. This is believ.ed to be a sequel to Cabinet 's decision concerning the insurgent blockade. It Is anderstood the Admiralty has inatrocted the destroyers to escort mer•hantmen desirous of going to Bilbao to the three-mile limit outside Bilbao. The Daily Mail's diplomatic corre■pondent says the Admiralty instruet•d British ships to flre afteT warning anv craft interf ering with British merehantmen ojitside the three-mile limit. The situation is much different iuside Ihe limit. Britain recognises that sseorting food ships to Bilbao might be regarded in some quarters as a form of Intervention.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 73, 13 April 1937, Page 5
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