JANUARY 13TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 3.14 in the afternoon the naval authorities at Harwich reported, through the coastguard, that an aeroplane was down east of Clacton pier. A fresh east-north-east wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at 3.30, and a mile east of the pier, picked up the pilot of an American Mustang.

He was unconscious, and the life-boat’s motor-mechanic gave him artificial respiration at once. The life-boat signalled for a doctor to be ready, but though the pilot was alive when he was landed at 4.15, he died after reaching hospital. - Rewards, £7 1s..