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BRITISH ENGINEER AND WIFE. SEQUEL TO ADVENTUROUS FLIGHT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.40 a.rn.) MOSCOW, January 3. Mr Brian Grover has been released, and is returning to England. Mrs Grover will nceofhpafiy her husband from Russia.
A cablegram from Moscow on January 1 stated that Mr Brian Grover, British engineer who flew from Stockholm to Slaritza in an effort to draw attention of the Soviet authorities io his efforts to rejoin his Russian wife, was convicted of illegally entering Russia and fined 1500 roubles, in default one month’s imprisonment. Confiscation of his aeroplane and his expulsion from Russia for five years were also ordered. A cablegram received from Moscow on November 21 stated: After making a daring, unplanned flight of 650 miles from Stockholm in a 70 horse-power sports plane. Mr Grover was arrested at Staritza. A pilot flew Mr Grover from England to Stockholm, where, during the pilot’s temporary absence, Mr Grover hastily took off, facing severe winter weather with little flying experience to bring back his Russian wife, who for a year has been unable to obtain a permit to leave Russia, while he has been unable to secure a Soviet visa to go to Moscow.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1939, Page 6
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