Dover, Kent.—-At 9.35 in the morning of the 21st of August, 1948, the Sand- gate coastguard reported information from the s.s. Baron Elibank that two men had been seen in a rowing boat eight miles east by south of Dover, and the motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot was launched at 10.30. A strong southerly breeze was blowing, with a very rough sea and rain squalls. The life-boat rescued the men, who were exhausted, ten miles south by east of Dover, and made for home, towing their boat.

When she was one mile north-east of the harbour she met the yacht Salamat Jalan, with three men and a woman aboard. They were unable to make harbour in the heavy seas. The life- boat took the yacht in tow and arrived at Dover at 2.10 that afternoon.

There she found that the two men in the rowing boat had -stolen her, and handed them over to the police.— Rewards, £9 14s..