BRITAIN IMPATIENT
Italo-German Demands (Received 23, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 22. Britain is becomiiig distinctly irapatient with the German demands in Tegard to Spain, declares The Tim.es diplomatic correspondent. Britain has gone as far as possible to meet the legitimate demands of Germany and Italy and expects some reciprocity. A message from Salamanea states that insutgent forees deny that Bilbao was bombed or swept by maehine gun fire from the air. The rebels s&y Ithat no insurgent plane flew over the city during the" three days before its capture. * A message from Valcencia says that after a conference the Govefnment lssued a long manifesto to the Spanish people to the effect that although Bilbao had been evacuted the Basque eountry had not bcen conquered. It »aysi "The world will shlidder when it knows the wholc story of 150,000 people wlio preferred to abandon the eity to living nnder tyranny of the invaders. The Government remaltm
eonfident of ultimate victory.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 134, 23 June 1937, Page 5
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