AUGUST 14TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 12.15 P.M., during an air-raid, a British aeroplane was seen from the life-boathouse to crash about three miles to the northward.

A westerly breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The crew were ready at the station and the motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary duty at Margate, was launched at 12.20 P.M The second coxswain was in charge, as the coxswain was out in his own boat. When she reached the position where the aeroplane had come down, the coxswain hailed her from his boat. He had picked up the pilot, injured and suffering from shock.

The pilot was transferred to the life-boat, that he might be got ashore as quickly as possible, He was landed at 12.50 P.M., and ambulance was waiting for him. - Rewards, £4 7s. 6d..