 Since Bau was originally scheduled to communicate uprising orders to requeté units in southern Catalonia, his departure impaired Carlist insurgent structures in Terres de l'Ebre.Shortly after the hostilities broke out he returned from Portugal to Burgos in the Nationalist zone.Early September 1936 the supreme governing body of the rebels, , constituted Comisión de Industria y Comercio, a substitute for Ministry of Economy.