The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-23
AMERICANS TO
 BE EVACUATED
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CContinueQ from rage 1J
 As he waited, Captain RanSone received c wireless from his owners that he would receive instructions in mid-afternoon.
 Eleven hundred French refugees arrived from Barcelona today in the first of two steamships chart- cred by the government.
 They told horTifyins stories of conditions in Barcelona. They es. timated the dead as high as 5000 and told of churches and convents they saw burning.
 A passenger on the liner Chella which arrived from Spain today, said the Barcelona churches were burned because rebel snipers fired from the church tops. Three Jesuits were killed and beheaded in one monastery, he claimed, and their heads paraded in the streets on sil. yer Salvers.
 Tn . convent, the traveller de. clared, nuns were stripped and thrown nude into the streets.
 Locked In Struggle
 Hendaye, ch-Spanish Front. fer, July 23-(UP)-9panish rebels and loyalists locked today in battles for possession of San Sebastian and Irun, and control of the Frenchs Spanish frontier. Government are tillery opened 6 violent. Lombard. ...a.t aS wataaI aReoSaev VNAiSaka iYA 0av San Sebastian, the seaside resort in which Claude c. Bowers, American ambassador to Spain and members of his staff are vacationists. Rebel airplanes droned round and round high over Irin, on the frontier 10 miles to the east, seeking to dis. lodge loyalists with Q shower Of bombs. Shell and bomb fragments fell over into French territory, so far without damage.
 Artillery Opens
 Loyalist artillery opened Q shat. tering bombardment of rebels In the fishing port of PasaJes between 1run and San Sebastian.
 High columns of dense smoke rose as the field guns fired from the mountains outside, and it was thought possible the big PaSajes oil depot had been hit. Because of cannonading in the area, authorities forbade American and other refug. ees to endanger themselves by Beeks ing to run the bombardment to the frontier. Four hundred Americans and British have succeeded in cros- sing in the last few days, escorted in trucks by armed left front mill. tiamen.
 Consul Makes Appeal
 Washington, July 23-(UP)-An urgent appeal that American women and children in the port of Bilbao be evacuated immediately was cabled to the state department to. day by Consul William E. Chapman at Bilbao.
 Chapman, reporting at 10 .. m. today, Spanish time, said the city was in virtually state of Seige and that the food shortage was acute. He said the food situation may rec suit in extensive footing and pillag- ing since authorities are in no po- sition to enforce law and order.
 The battleship Oklahoma, under orders to put in at Bilbao, complet. ed fueling at Cherbourg and sailed from that port this morning. This was 10 hours earlier than the navy department had believed the re. fueling could be completed. The Oklahoma, they said, should reach Bilbao about midnight Friday, east ! ern standard time, or about 6 a. m. Saturday, Spanish time.
 Not Made Plain
 Chapman's cable did not make 1t plain whether Bilbao ig in the hands of the government or of insurgent forces. His reference to the in- ability of civil authorities to main. tain order was taken to indicate that government forces still are in nominal control.
 The appeal from Chapman are rived while officials were still await ing word from the American export line in New York on the state de- partment request that the lines steamer Exeter be sent to the 6pan- ish Mediterranean port of Barcelo- na indicated the city is in Q state of fearful chaos end that foreign lives are gravely endangered. There are several hundred American resi- dents there.