BOY TRAPPED ON A CLIFF Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 9.5 in the evening of February 22nd, 1947, the police telephoned" that a boy was stranded on the cliff-face north of Aberystwyth and that the National Fire Service had failed to find him.

The weather was fine with a smooth sea and light north-easterly wind.

The motor life-boat Frederick Angus was launched at 9.45. Mr. George Williams, the honorary secretary of the station, was on board her. She took a powerful spot-light, and had a small boat, with a crew of three, in tow, for getting ashore under the cliff.

In response to the spot-light, flickering sparks were seen from the cliff, but no reply was made to the shouts of the crew. Taking the spot-light, the small boat worked close inshore and her crew were then able to speak to the boy, who said that he was on a narrow ledge, and afraid to move. Two men then landed from the small boat with the spot-light, and one of them at- tempted to climb the cliff, but from the shore the spot-light was not so effective, so the life-boat put back and returned with an acetylene gas flare, and with Mr. Bowker and Mr. J.

Andrews, of the St. John's Ambulance.

The gas flare was transferred to the small boat. By its light the boy could be clearly seen and it was possible to direct him down the cliff and along a sheep-track to a place where men of the National Fire Service met him, and from there by a path to the promenade. When it was known that he was safe the men ashore were, with some difficulty, taken into the small boat, and with her in tow the life-boat made for her station, 'which she reached at 11.30 that night.—Rewards, £24 9*..