352.1115/4071: Telegram
The Consul at Bilbao (Chapman), Then in France, to the Secretary of State
[Received August 31—10:25 a.m.]
Subject evacuation of American citizens and Cubans from Gijon. All of the American women and children who desired to be evacuated were permitted by the authorities to leave with the thrust that it is inhuman for foreign powers to [refuse to?] evacuate Spanish women and children while allowing insurgents to bomb them. Eight men over 18 still without authorization to evacuate where [when?] we were required by instructions to leave Gijon. There are others who did not respond to telegrams. Twenty-seven being sent to Havre tonight.
Seventy Cubans had been approved for evacuation but at the time to leave authorities struck 30 from the lists. No others able to get authorization to leave.