APRIL 17TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.

Early in the morning a crash was heard by the coastguard, but the weather was foggy and he could see nothing. He made enquiries but learnt nothing. At 9.33 the life-boat honorary secretary heard from the flying control officer at St. Mawgan Air Port that wreckage and a dinghy could be seen off Watergate Bay. The weather was fine, but still foggy, with visibility about three-quarters of a mile. At 9.50 the motor life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was launched and found the wreckage of a British Warwick aeroplane.

Her crew of four and twelve passengers had all been killed. She picked up eleven bodies, and took in tow some wreckage in which another body was entangled. She also picked up a quantity of mail, including a packet of one-hundred-dollar bills worth approximately £45,000. She then made a careful search, but found neither survivors nor bodies, and returned to her station at 1.45 that afternoon. - Rewards, £14 14s..