An Irishman’s hair-raising adventures with the Spanish Reds are described in "I Fought With The Reds in Spain" by Captain Charles J McGuinness, exclusive publication of which commences in the Irish Independent on Monday.

This is the most amazing narrative of real-life adventure ever to be published in an Irish newspaper.

Telling his thrilling story with a gripping realism, the author takes YOU with him to see the red reign of terror in action. Suppressing nothing, he reveals how the ruthless war on religion is waged…

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A LIFE OF THRILLS

A glance at the following story of the author’s adventurous career will give readers a foretaste of some of the thrills in store for them in "I Fought With The Reds".

Captain Charles J McGuinness is the embodiment of the spirit of adventure of the Twentieth Century.

He has had a truly amazing career. He has roamed the Seven Seas and there would appear to be few countries in the world that he has not trod.

Captain McGuinness is a Derryman, who has the sea in his blood, for he comes from a seafaring family. He was born in 1893 and since he was 15 years of age, when he ran away to sea, he has allowed his roving spirit full freedom. Wherever adventure loomed he has packed his kit and made for it.

FOUR SHIPWRECKS!

That early escapade of making off to the sea was quickly followed by a shipwreck in the South Pacific in 1909, when, after 15 days in an open boat, he was rescued.

He did pearl fishing n the South Seas, and visited the Near East, Africa, West Indies, Central America, China and Japan.

BROKE PRISON

He joined the British Navy at the outbreak of the Great War, and was two years in the service. He was transferred to the army, and saw fighting in German East Africa. There he was captured, but escaped from the prison camp, travelling on foot alone for 200 miles through swamp and jungle.

The war over, he turned his attention to his native land, where plenty of adventure at the time was to be had.

He carried out gunrunning for the IRA and took part in the fighting against the Black-and Tans in Donegal. While awaiting court-martial in Derry, after being wounded in the hip, he escaped from prison, and made his way to Dublin.

He brought considerable quantities of arms into the country for the IRA.

WITH BYRD EXPEDITION

In the subsequent years his adventurous spirit brought him to many other countries, and the next highlight of his career was when he was appointed Chief Navigation Officer for the Expedition to the South Pole, commanded by Vice-Admiral Byrd. ‘An adventurer of a vanishing type,’ he was described by Admiral Byrd.

Captain McGuinness designed the emblem of the expedition, the members of which received a remarkable demonstration when they returned to New York. Lectures on the expedition were given by Captain McGuinness before many organizations and clubs in America.

That expedition over, this nomad was at a loose end. But not for long – for he had turned almost immediately to another field of adventure – rum running from Canada to [the] United States.

In this escapade he had many amazing adventure and escaped from the United States authorities.

Under the nom de plume of ‘Night Hawk’ he described his rum running exploits in American newspapers.

From rum running in America his wanderlust brought him to Soviet Russia where he spent some time.

His experiences in many countries he published in a book, ‘Nomad’, published a few years ago which created the greatest interest in these countries and in America, not only because of the amazing exploits of the man himself, but because of the disclosures it made.

And then Spain called him – for there was adventure there.