BRITISH AIRMEN ARRESTED
LETTERS FOR SPAIN CHARGES OF SUPPORTING TROTSKYISTS Labour Official’s Explanation Press Association —Copyright. Berlin, June 23. Four British aviators 'are held up at Frankfort-on-Main till films taken on a flight have been examined. They are Mr . A. H. Abbot, flying instructor at Southampton, and three pupils, who niisto< < a military for a civil airport. Tb? British consul is watching the interests.' cf the fliers. According to a London message the Independent Labour Party states that the' Englishman John McNair, the Party’s Barcelona representative, Is among those arrested. He will be charged with, carrying letters.' and money for the Spanish Trotskyist party. Mr Brockway, secretary of the Independent Labour Party, says the arrest was presumably the sequel to the repatriation of some wounded and sick members, the money for whom was taken from McNair and restored, after which the incident had been thought closed.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 455, 24 June 1937, Page 5
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146BRITISH AIRMEN ARRESTED Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 455, 24 June 1937, Page 5
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