BILBAO REFUGEES.
3000 EVACUATED. ' LA PALLICE, June 1. The Habana, escorted by a destroyer, landed 3000 refugees from Bilbao. britisbFwarships. DEPARTURE FOR SPANISH WATERS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 1. H.M.S. Hood,. flagship of Vice-Ad-miral Sir Geoffrey Blake, commanding the battle-cruiser squadron in the Mediterranean, sailed from Spithead to day for Gibraltar to resume her normal routine following her return home for the Coronation naval review. 'Tlie date of her sailing is according to programme. The destroyers Express and Esk, of the fifth flotilla of the Home Fleet, also sailed from Portsmouth to-day for Portland, where they will complete their final preparations for their departure to North Spanish waters for patrol dotic's under the Non-Interven-tion Agreement.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 156, 3 June 1937, Page 9
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