FEBRUARY 17TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE.

At 2.44 in the afternoon life-boatmen on the promenade saw an aeroplane crash west-north-west of the coastguard station, about a mile off shore. The crash was also seen and reported by the coastguard.

A fresh easterly wind was blowing, with a slight sea. At 2.55 the motor lifeboat Lawrence Ardern, Stockport, was laun-ched, but she only found some wreckage and papers which she picked up and handed to the police when she got back to her station at 5.30. An R.A.F. launch which was out picked up a wireless report that the crew of the aeroplane had baled out over land.- Rewards, £14 9s. 6d..