St. Mary's, Scilly Isles.—19th Octo- ber, 1939. A message was received that a British steamer, s.s. Halizones, had been sunk by enemy action forty miles S.W. of the Bishop Lighthouse, but ten minutes after the life-boat was launched, news came that the Dutch steamer Colytto had gone to her help and the life-boat was recalled.—Re- wards, £15 7s. 6d..