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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 311, 17 December 1936, Page 4 (Supplement)

Returns to Spain With Price On His Head EX-B.A.F. DAREDEVIL Here is the story of a modern “Scarlet Pimpernel,” a British commercial pilot, formerly of the K.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 on his head. lie is shadowed by Red agents and guarded when he •rosses from France to England. When in Red towns he wears the Government soldier’s uniform, and ,dves the clenched-iist salute. Many’ of the people he has rescued md taken to French territory are now n 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 foi 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 exciting adventure occurred when he stole a machine from the aerodrome at Madrid becnse he thought his fife was in danger. “As 1 had a document commanding Spanish Government soldiers to give me every assistance, no notice was taken of me when 1 walked to an aero plane on the aerodrome.” he said. “1 had only just get in when there was a commotion and soldiers and ofliieals came running after me. 1 fired my revolver off to keep them away and got the machine off.

PIED PIPER WANTED YORKSHIRE VILLAGE’ S RAT PROBLEM Dodworth, near Barnsley, is in need iof .a Pied Piper who will rid the disi trict of rats. A special meeting of the | urban district council is to be called | to decide what steps can. be taken to deal with the nuisance. A member of the council, Mr. Joseph ! Collins, told a reporter that in one ' place at Dodworth rats are regularly I to be seen ;it a drain which comes up to the doorway of a house. ‘‘ln one house itself rats have actuj ally been found in the beds,” he said. | “A woman on one occasios went to get ■ some clothes from a box, and instead of getting hold of the clothing placed her hand on a rat. In that house there : were six or seven children.” I Other councillors have suggested I that the council should engtage a man i,or a number of men to get rid of the ■rats at any costs, paying so much for a tail, and that the rats in the sewers should be gassed.