AIRMAN MISSING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 231, 30 August 1937, Page 2

AIRMAN MISSING.

INCIDENT .IN SPAIN.

Received August 30, 2.10 p.m. HENDAYE, Aug. 29,

British shipping js asked to look out for Mr Rupert LeU/ille, a wealthy English amateur airman', who has been missing since August 25, when lie was ordered at the point of the revolver to fly a Government leader from Santander to Gijon. - Mr Bellville arrived at Santander with a sherry shipper, Ricardo Gonzales, in order to participate in the celebrations marking the fall of the city, but the announcement of the fall was premature and the Government troops arrested the airman and his passenger and put them in prison. One' account says they landed at Santander, cheering for General Franco. Gonzales, after Mr Bellvillejs forced departure, -was robbed of his papers and money, liberated, and returned to Sai, Sebastian A Madrid message says Gonzales is the chief of General Franco’s information service. It adds that Mr Bellville described himself as a journalist about to chronicle the entry of the Itajian divisions into Santander. Mr Bellville, who is an amateur bullfighter, served in the rebel army in 1936 and shares with his brother Anthony £394,397 left by his father, MiFrank Ashton Bellville.