SEPTEMBER 2ND. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.

At 9.58 in the morning the coast-guardreported that a parachute had been seen to drop twelve miles to the S.W., and at 10.23 the motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched. Commander W. Highfield, O.B.E., R.N., honorary secretary of the station, went with her. A moderate S.W.

wind was blowing, with a slight sea. An aeroplane was also searching, and the lifeboat went to a spot where she had dropped a smoke bomb. She found nothing there or at the position first given by the coastguard, but on her way back to the station she picked up a German parachute and the petrol tank of a British aeroplane. A motor boat had also put out, manned by two men, but she found nothing. The life-boat returned to her station at 2.5 in the afternoon.- Rewards, £15 4s. 6d..