ENGLISH AIRMAN REPORTED MISSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 205, 30 August 1937, Page 7

ENGLISH AIRMAN REPORTED MISSING.

FLIGHT IN SPAIN. Forced at Pistol Point to Save Loyalist Leader. SANTANDER REFUGEE. United Press Association.—Copyright (Received 12 noon.) HEXDAYE, August 29. British shipping has been asked to look out for Rupert Bellville, a wealthy English amateur airman, missing since August 25 when he was ordered, at the revolver-point, to fly v Government leader from Santander to Gijon. Bellville arrived at Santander with a sherry shipper, Ricardo Gonzales, in order to participate in celebrations marking the fall of the city, but the announcement of the fall was premature. Government troops arrested and gaoled the airman and his passenger. One account says they landed at Santander, cheering for General Franco, and that Gonzales. after Bellville's forced departure, was robbed of his papers and money and then liberated. He returned to San Sebastian. A Madrid message says Gonzales was chief of General Franco's information service, and adds that Bellville described himself as a journalist about to chronicle the entry of Italian divisions into Santander. __ Bellville, who was an amateur bull fighter and served with the rebel army in 1936, shares with his brother, Anthony, £394,397, left by his father, Mr. Frank Ashton Belville, who died on September 22 last.

AERIAL CONFLICT. Government Claims Five Rebel Machines. TWO ITALIANS' CAPTURED. (Received 12.30 p.m.) VALENCIA, August 29. Government -planes on the Aragon front brought down five insurgent machines, two of which were set on fire in the air. The others fell in Government territory. Two Italian survivors stated that they belonged to a squadron of 30 war 'planes, all the crews of which are Italians. REBEL TRAWLERS. Warning Shots Fired at British Steamer. DESTROYER INTERVENES. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 29. An Admiralty report states that two insurgent trawlers fired a warning shot on the British steamer Bramhill from Brest, in the neighbourhood of Gijon. The Bramhill did not consider she was within territorial waters and continued her voyage. Two more warning shots were then fired when the British destroyer Fearless arrived. The incident closed after an exchange of signals. CHILD RELIEF. POPE'S ' DONATION OF £3000. (Received 12.30 p.m.) ROME, August 29. The Pope sent £3000 for relief of children at Santander.