APRIL MEETING EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. About seven in the evening of the 21st of March, 1945, two boys, aged 17 and 15, put off from the shore in a home-made canoe. The sea was calm, with some fog. About half a mile off shore, opposite the Redoubt Bandstand, the boys turned towards the beach and the canoe capsized.

The elder boy managed to grip it, but the younger boy, who could not swim, was lost. The boys’ cries for help had been heard by another boy on shore who told a fisherman. He, with another man, went out and saved the elder boy and brought him ashore. Then, with a police officer, they put out again and searched for the missing boy, but without success. - Rewards, £1..