AUGUST. 25TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET.

Shortly after 5 P.M. a fierce air battle took place, several enemy machines being shot down. A S.W. breeze was blowing, with a smooth sea. At 5.36 P.M. the coastguard reported four aeroplanes down five miles S.W. by W. of St. Albans Head, and the motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 5.41 P.M., but all that she found was wreckage, and the remains of a pilot. After picking up pieces of the wreckage and clothing, for identification, the life-boat returned at 9.45 P.M. - Rewards, £10 19s..