FORMER R.A.F. PILOT ARRESTED; SAID TO BE IN CUBAN REVOLT
Reed. 7.55 p.m. New York, Oct. 2 Customs agents at Miami, Florida, today arrested a former R.A.F. pilot, Arthur Roscoe, aged 26, of Hollywood. California, on a charge of having illegally exported a fighter plane from Florida to Cuba.
A supervising Customs agent said Roscoe was "connected with a revolutionary movement” against the Dominican Republic which was baited by the Cuban army authorities this week. He flew a fighter from Tampa to Cuba on August 15 and remained in Cuba until September 24 when he joined other pilots allegedly involved in the revolutionary attempt. The Cuban Government, presumably, impounded the plane. Roscoe was an acquaintance of the Cuban national sports direclor, Manolo Castro, who was arrested at Miami on September 29 on a charge of smuggling ammunition to Cuba. The Cuban Army tonight released 376 of about 900 bedraggled infuriated “rebels’’ whose attempted expedition against the Dominican Republic ended in detention cells at a military camp. They were the “physically unfit” who had been abandoned before the abortive expedition get off £or the Dominican Republic.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 4 October 1947, Page 5
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