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Show Italian, Rebel Ships Bar Bilbao Refugees' Flight Basques Fear Fascist Trap; Barcelona Revolt Ends; Government Reforms By Associated Press The Basque government defenders of Bilbao charged today that "an Italian destroyer" and seven insurgent fighting ships were massed off this Biecsyan port In sn attempt to prevent by force the evscustlon of 2300 women, children and old men. At the aame time the Basqus government reported Its troops had trapped Italians and Moors In tha Bsrmte sector northeast of Bilbao aad broadcast to the world a stete-msnt stete-msnt placing "full blame" on Germany Ger-many for the air raid en the sacred city of Outrnica, where SOO persons per-sons died last wssk. Germany haa termed the Basque charges that Csrmant raided Guernica Guer-nica "atrocity tales." Peace haa been restored In Barcelona, Bar-celona, official reports said today, after a bloody anarchist revolt Troops fought hand-to-hand In the building's corridors aftsr Catalan militia atormsd It in the face of anarchist machine guns bristling from the windows. The uprising, which had threatened threat-ened to split tht Bpanish government's govern-ment's defensss sgslnst the Insurgents, Insur-gents, was reported In direct dispatches dis-patches from Barcelona to have resulted re-sulted In a new provisional government, gov-ernment, with tht anarchists represented. rep-resented. Ths Catalan regime has strongly supported the main Upan-Ish Upan-Ish government. The long-etmmering strife boiled over yestsrday whsn Companyt' government tried to oust extremists extrem-ists from local govsrnroents and en- ICestlneeS Mi Pare Elskt) I Column Plv.l which turned the Catalan capital Into a battlefannt and coat at ieast 100 lives. Travelers reaching Psrplgnan on the Franco-Spanish frontier said fighting around Barcelona's telephone tele-phone txchsngt lasted ssvsn hours. BILBAO FEARS FASCISTTRAP Cli illai I anaai Pea Oaer fore the Madrid. Valencia admlale-trauaa admlale-trauaa ardor for a aalfled aaaUiaia laaimaad. MADRID. May tU) aVeree af Partuguaae fighting with the pan-lab pan-lab taargat were blUd today wkaa tha imraanli Madrid farce at rat k bard aa H fronla. army dlapelcbe repotted. Ueneral Joa Ml)' ktfUma t-laakod t-laakod aalinaallH-Blreaakad t the VarabarM-hel a actor, uat nutk af the Madrid city limit. Mora thaa 00 Inaurgente war report ad killed la efftctai lorallet dlapetrhaa. Including cra af Portugaa. Port ugal ba been fiieadly, la the cauee of Cenaral Praaclac Pranc. ae-Ueaabat ae-Ueaabat leader. LONDON. May t (Ifl lafor-matloa lafor-matloa obtained ky the BrHlah gor-arnment gor-arnment Wade ta th ronclualoa that the Bpaalah rebel kaUkmhlp Kapaaa wa aunk by ealllaloa with a mine and not by th bomb af loyallet aircraft Pint Lrd of tb Admiralty Admiral-ty Sir Bamual Hear told tb bo viae of common today. The Eapaaa went dowa off Baa-taader, Baa-taader, Bpaia, after being attacked by bryallat bombing plane. Th elnking had boea baited aa th first rtctary. by, airplane rrer a bat-Uaahlp. |