REBEL ADVANCE CONTINUES
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Basques Prepare For Final Stand DEFENDING SANTANDER
(By I'elegrapb-
• (Received 26, 11.30 a.m.) HENDAYE, June 25. . Tlie rebel vanguard entered the Santander province and made contaot with the Basque troops at Valmaseda, eight .ui}ea from the sc-port of Cast-ro Urdiales which is the xuslurgents tirst lmportant objective. The Basque army at Santander nunihers 55,000 well-trained and well-armed lnilitiamen. Factories are^ working niglit and day making mtiniticms wbiJe all able-bodied persona are diggiog trenches. The Basque Government representative states that a febel tribunaj seutenced to death the Basque Minister of Health, Senor Eispinosa, and twa compatriots, whose plane made a. iorced landing between San Sebastian and Bilboa. The fate of the Spanish pilot, Senor Jose Yangues and a BTenob passenger, M. Georges Rouge, is unknown. A rebel broadcast alleges that a throng of foadless fugitives in Santander demonstrated against the Government. Civil guards were helplesB and anarchisfs seized the opportunity of taking leadership and proclaimed a Cqmmuiiist Libertarian republicCrowds raided the Bhops.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 137, 26 June 1937, Page 5
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