ATTACK AWAITED
BRITISHERS LEAVE BILBAO {British Official fl T lreles».)i (Received September 19, noon.) RUGBY, September 18. A message from St. Jean de Lux states that all British subjects who desired to leave Bilbao have now been evacuated. They were' taken either there or to Bordeaux. The British Consul at Bilbao and the Consulate staff arrived at St. Jean de Luz this afternoon on board H.MiS. Exmouth. Seventy British subjects, have preferred to remain in Bilbao for busines« ■reasons. Bilbao is reported, though calm, to be in hourly expectation, of an insurgent attack. CONSUL'S SYMPATHIES (Received September 19, 12.50 p.m.) CAPE TOWN. September 18. The Spanish Consul, before sailing for Burgos, explained that he was a Nationalist, or rebel. When the Communists were defeated, he said, and Spain's trouble over, he would return to South Africa.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 70, 19 September 1936, Page 9
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