Washington, July 21 Two American were waters to protect Although official that Americans. in pain were all safe, the situation was considered threatening that "a. precautionary: measure was regarded as necessary. As a result, the battleship Oklahoma, now at Cherbourg, on a midshipmen training cruise, was ordered to go to the northern coast of Spain to esta lish communication with the Amer Jean Ambassador to Spain, Mr. Claude G, Bowers, and the Consuls at Vigo and Bilbao, in readiness to evacuate the American nationals if necessary.
The cruiser Quincy, newest addi ton to the American Navy, two days. out at sea to-day en route to Europe for a shake-down cruise, was ordered to go to Gibraltar and to await orders there.
'OMclals of the American diplomaig establishment in Spain to-day reported intense fighting, in which thirty persons were killed. In front of the windows of the Consulate at Mr, William W, Corcoran, the reported that troops. fired on. crowds of armed workin there. The consulate staff, he 1 Ported, was safe, and British cruisers Were standing by.
Mr. Bowers reported that. San Sebastian was practically Isolated, with barricades erected by Socialist youths, who. were well armed, Bridges en route to Pamplona had been dynamited, he said, and sporashooting had occurred in the streets.
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