SEPTEMBER 27TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.

At 5.25 P.M. the coastguard reported that a German aeroplane was in the sea a quarter of a mile S.W. of the bathing pool at St.

Leonards, and that another had crashed in flames six miles to the southward. A S.W.

breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. The motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched at 5.37 P.M., the honorary secretary, Commander W. Highfield, O.B.E., R.N., going out with her. She rescued one German airman, badly injured. He said that. two others were lost. The life-boat returned to her station at 6 P.M. - Rewards, £11 13s..