852.00/3811: Telegram
The Consul at Seville (Bay) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 4:25 p.m.]
Referring to Department’s telegram of November 16, noon, General Queipo de Llano transmitted to me this morning text of a telegram received by him from General Franco stating that the representative of the National Government in Lisbon has been instructed to inform foreign governments of the intention of the National Government to stop all traffic with the port of Barcelona by all military measures even to the destruction of that port, should it become necessary. Communication added that no further notice is to be given and that foreign vessels should leave that port at once. It recommended that foreigners and non-combatants residing in Barcelona, abandon the city especially the zones near the port.