Following 'a bombardment of Bilbao by seven insurgent aeroplanes during which two government warships were damaged and 150 Civil Guard wiped out by a direct hit of militia women, under ihe leadership of a heavy woman waving a long Iknife, boarded a hostage ship in the harbour and, yelling like demons, tortured and slaughtered 210 hosta and threw their bodies in the bay, An Englishman, who witnessed the affair and has asked for anonymity, reported to the United Press that the women stripped and spat on the priests before killing them. Tu one instance, he said, the militia women carved 4 hammer and sickle on the flanks of a priest before killing him, Alter kellling these hostages, the militia women prepared to go to the prison on shore to exccute® sixty women held there as hostages, However, the governor rushed Civil Guards and dispersed the "execu It Was impossible to learn the names of the victims, but {tis thought that many nobles were included, The arrival of seven loyal warships In Bilbao harbour, reported to be carrying large supplies of arms and ammunition, precipitated the insurgent bombardment—United Pres
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