EVACUATION OF BILBAO
OF BRITISH SUBJECTS ATTACK HOURLY EXPECTED (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, 18th September. A St. Jean de Luz message states that all British subjects who desired to leave Bilbao have now been evacuated. They have been 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.M.S. Exmouth. Seventy British subjects preferred to remain at Bilbao for business reasons.
Bilbao is reported though calm to be in hourly expectation of the insurgents’ attack.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 19 September 1936, Page 15
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