In a further reply to-day. Mr Eden said he was informed that a number of executions had taken place at Bilbao since the Nationalists had been in occupation of that city It was naturally impossible to Obtain the exact figures, Mr. Eden said. His Majesty's Government had strongly represented to the parties in Spain the desirability of refraining from further executions in order to avoid prejudicing the prospective negotiations for a general exchange of prisoners and other detained persons.
The British Agent at Salamanca had recently received assurance that the Basque prisoners, who were the subject of negotiations, were in n danger.
Replying to a supplementary question, Mr. Eden said the Government bad received a similar assurance from the Spanish Government—Wireless through Reuter.
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