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APRIL 9TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 4.30 in the afternoon a report was received through the Abergele police and the Rhyl coastguard that people had seen an airman come down by parachute into the sea off Llandulas.

A moderate west-north-west wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The Rhyl motor life-boat The Gordon Warren was launched at 4.30 and found a sleeve target, which an aeroplane had reported as having lost about this time. She returned at 9.30 that evening. The Llandudno life-boat was also launched. - Rewards, Rhyl, £16 14s. ; Llandudno, £19 9s. 9d..