June 23, With the fall of Bilbao the Spanish insurgents have achieved tone of their most important victories in this long-drawn-out civil wai and it is to be expected that as soon as they have cleaned up the situation in the Basque provine they will turn their attention {0 the capture of Madrid and the final campaign for the suppression of the Valencia government, With the undeniable superiority in-men and material which the insurgents possessed it is remarkable that they were unable to defeat the Basques in Jess than eighty-four days severe fighting, and it speaks volumes for the bravery of the defenders that they were able tain a lost night for so long a period. Wheth they would have been able to offer a successful resistance to the onslaughts of General Mola, and
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