RICH ENGLISHMAN MISSING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 191, 30 August 1937, Page 5

RICH ENGLISHMAN MISSING

— Presa Assn.— (

Cheered for Franco in Loyalist Camp SANTANDER INCIDENT . - 1

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(Rcccivccl 3U, i-2.au p.m.; HENDAYE, Aug. 29. British shipping has been asked lo look out for Mr Rupert Bellville, a Avealthy English amateur airman, who has been missing since August 25, when he was ordered at tho point of a revolvcr to fly a Government leader from Santander to Gijon. Mr Bellville arrived at Santander j with the shorry shipper Senor Ricardo Gonzales in order to paTticipate in tlie celebrations marking the fall of the city, but tho announcement of the fall was premature. Government troops arrested the airman and his passenger and pul thcm in prieon. e Ono account says that they landed at Santander cheering for General Franco. Senor Gonzales, after Mr Bellville 's forced departure, was robbed of his papers and money, liberated and returned to San Sebastian. A Madrid message says that Senor Gonzales, chief of General Franco 's information service, adds that Mr Bellville deseribed himself as a journalist about to clxronicle the entry of the Italian divisions into Santander. Mr Bellville, who is an amateur bullflghter, sei'vcd with the rebel army in 193G. He shares with his brothcr Anthony £394,397 loft by his fatlicr, Mr Frank Ashton Bellville, who died recently.