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A British Spitfire Aeroplane and a German Heinkel

APRIL 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. A British Spitfire fighter aeroplane and a German Heinkel bomber had come down in the sea thirty miles east of Hartlepool, but the five German airmen and the British pilot were rescued by two steamers. - Rewards : Hartlepool, £4 4s. ; Whitby, £4 16s. 6d..