OCTOBER 7TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.

At 2.10 P.M. information was received by telephone that a fighter aeroplane had crashed in the sea. A few minutes later one of the life-boatmen reported that he could see a small object on the water. A light westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea.

The motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched at 2.25 P.M. and three miles to the N.E. by E. of the lifeboat station found a German pilot in a small rubber boat. He was taken into the life-boat, disarmed, his head injuries dressed, and landed at the station at 3.25 P.M. where a military escort awaited him. - Rewards, £15 15s..