Returns to Spin With Price On His Head

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 289, 7 December 1936, Page 8

Returns to Spin With Price On His Head

EX-R.A.F. DAREDEVIL Here is the story of a modern "Scarlet Pimpernel," a British commercial pilot, formerly of the R.A.F., who has just been through a series of amazing adventures rescuing British and other refugees from Spain. He has returned to Spain to the service of the insurgents. The Red Government has placed a price oil his head. He is shadowed by Red agents and guarded when he crosses from France to England. When in Red towns he wears the Government soldier’s uniform, and gives the clenched-list salute. Many of the people ho has rescued and taken to French territory are now in the London area.

There is one girl, who does not even know his name, but who owes her life to the airman and his ’plane. There is a family of seven, British mother and six children, whose father, a Spaniard, was shot because he was said to belong to a Fascist body. Three of the children were kept for a time as hostages, and the airman was able to rescue them by entering the Red service, flying one of their ’planes, and taking the children over the frontier. His most occurred when he stole a' machine from the aerodrome at Madrid becuso he thought his life was in danger. “As I had a document commanding Spanish Government soldiers to give me every assistance, no notice was taken of me when 1 walked to an aeroplane on the aerodrome." he said. “I had only just got in when there was a commotion and soldiers and offiicals came running after me. I fired my revolver off to keep them away and got the machine off.