BILBAO STILL RESISTS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 131, 19 June 1937, Page 5

BILBAO STILL RESISTS

Press Aasn.

Couragreous Basques Fight On REFUGEES CAPTURED

(By Telegraph—

— Copyright.)

(Received 19, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 18. The Daily Telegraph 's Derio cor. respondent says the " Nationaliats continue to progress north and south of Bilbao, but the defenders' coutageous resistance in the eeiitre frustrates a direet attack on the eity. The Italian SpeniBh brigade oecupied Lasarenas Harbonr ,at the entrance to Bilbao, bait apart from bjijning a few large buildings, Lasarenas suffergd little, Carlists adyancing from Galdocano reached the road junction at Dos Camino? whare they .j-e only 2£ miles from Bilbao. The well kaown ammunition works at Galdacano have been wrecked. The Basques are still holding the last Of the hilj? guarding access to Bilbao on the Mdngia-Derio road which Nationalist artillery and aircraft bombarded all day. 3?ationaliflt warships captured six Vessels containing Bilbao refugees. The vessels were taken to San Sebastian. t The Basque Government Press Bureau at Bayonne anttounced carly this morning that the Basque Government has left Bilbao for a village be_ hixid the naililary lines, A delegation representing the Government remains in tbft mttr