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September 30, 1940.
BOY DROWNS BECAUSE OF DELAY
RED TAPE PREVENTED QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA LIFE BOAT LAUNCHING
FOR NEARLY AN HOUR TWO BOYS, AGED FIFTEEN, CLUNG|
| DESPERATELY IN THE SEA TO A. CAPSIZED CANOE WHILE DIS-
| CUSSIONS TOOK PLACE WHETHER A LIFEBOAT SHOULD GO TO.
THEIR RESCUE WITHOUT THE ADMIRALTY'S CONSENT.
When help did arrive one of the boys was drowned.
So annoyed are the people of Rhyl at the failure of the local lifeboat to go ont that a petition of protest is being sent to Mr. Gwilym Rowlands, M.P. för Flintshire, and the National Lifeboat Institution.
This was revealed at the inquest at Rhyl on William. Edward Hughes, fifteen, shop assistant, of Westfield-road, Rhyl. The verdict was Accidental death.
The other boy, Ronald William Robinson, fifteen, of Marine.
'I SHALL drive, Rhyl, stated thui on July
STARTLE
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15 he went out with Hughes in Hughes's home-made canoe.
They found they were drifting out | tu peit. They tried to turn the cark and it overturned, throwing them into the water,
"We clung to the cand for un hour," said Robinzen. "Suddenly it
i tried to save him, but didn't see him agnits
I Saw Nazis Dive-Bomb
On Lightship
Special Correspondent
-Leopold Harris sank and Hughes fet 20.
Not until now have I seen LEOPOLD HARRIS, convlet- "A few intulea later 1 was picked anything in this war to rouse ed of fire raising seven years up by a meta-bout which was just me to fury and hate. But to age and sentenced to fourteen, too late to save Hughes."
day I have just seen six Stukas years' penal servitude, has been
Waher Henry Bolton, a Rhyl coust-dive bomb and sink a helpless.
that the boys were in difficulties
Two of the crew were killed. On looking through his telescope, he decided they were merely bath. All of the olbers, although ing, although he saw them clinging rescued, were injured.
NEXT CHANGE #VIva cisco KID" released from Camp Hill Prison, gustat, aut fugt police informed inm anchored lightship.
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He ordered a taxi to take him Cowes and paid for it with money he had earned in prison.)
Harris took the ferry steamed to wife. two Stbumpton, v liere duas
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In his ex liement to get down the BATOR ON Harris sumibles, and his younger son Henty ran for ward and
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They drove to a hotel, had a meal ja ar private 10am, and then the clder' son Lawts drove them to Lamden,
They were stopped at a rund bur, ade by bulisers With Axrd tyrsets Haris had been given un lentily card in prison and they were nukly waved on
At the home in Donnington-roud, Harlesden, N.W, Lewis Harris suld: My father is in 'good health, and
to the panoc.
As an air bottle raged, I was on n tein overlooking the Channel A He kept then under observation į salior nearby let out a mry of rage
five minutes, decided they were "Look at the so-and-so's eatly in difficulties and telepimned
Mr. Ernest Junes, secretary of thug le boint, the lightship!" Rhyl Lifeboat Association. Who s
it was not possible for the leat to gu as he could not get the crew together at that time of day
Later Mr Jones suggested that a mator-book shruukt be sent out, and
dune this was
Hughes's body was not found till next day
Hurricanes There
they're
Three Junkers 87 dive-bumbers were dropping almost vertiently from La cloud-bank. Tiny blobs fell from then as they pulled out of the sleep dive and turned for howie, but the bombs fell Incredibly wide
LIL-
The little lightship corked in the
WIG bust ste lashed-up sea, Constable Crell Williams, of y.damaged We leaved a sigh of relief sand he telephoned Holton twice in, and cheered
nine
patrolling Hurr opting that the Hfebont should go out canes part their noses dawn and
Eventually, Bultan atreed to aderiscreeched after the bombers.
the boat out, tatt at 920 pm Bolton
But as they did
three
more
telephoned back that he had cancel. Stukas dropped from the clouds and
e
te onder for the Weboat as he released thielt heavy bonths, Uis time d devided the boys were really natluse enough to damage the lightship
and leave her down by the stern
in difficulties.
Coroner's Criticism
Constable Williams said he hurried
he expects to return soon to business' to the Weboat house and found the
in the City He is not so bluck as
printed le 10
a rug for
Tit
N
luebont ready to go out.
The betul never went out The engineer told him he could not go till
| the voxswain instructed him to do so
Bomber Paid
The Hurricanes did not keep un [long in suspense
Dense smoke poured from one of the Nazi planes after the flest burst turned and twisted, flatened vui, ant then plunged into the sca
Clear Conscience
A few minutes after the crew was Inspector Charles Millington sd rescued the lightship rolled on unn Latert Horas turmise!1 urt I shall the secretary told him that the outside and babbled down to the bottom suoti lauke safe startling and sens could not go without the Admiralty's of the sen, leaving a cirete at white feral news converting my conviction consent
disedomus which more or less starlin the country I hope to make thage disclosures the
in
very
Palute
Ernest Junes, +1 Buifor-street. Rhyt accretary ol Uy Lifebont Association, mald "In the ordinary why I would have ordered the life- it to be Jaunebest. I didn't do so
Then shall return to the City.
shall be able to face my because the lifetout is now under The
but
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have
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"I was in Camp Hilt for only a furt- ght But my short stay did me a hot of g
At Maidstone Prison conditions were not as favourable a Cour would expert. I owe everything! to any wile and children They have stood loyalty behind me."
Leupold Harris served half his fun sentener He earned remission for good conduit, and a further five years was taken off becuase he helped the police tence others concerned in the the insurance frauds,
"It is forbidden lo fire maroona to summon the crew, so i would have taken about an hour to ret them together."
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Jones: Whether the bout goes out
rests with me I adapt myself to the conditions.
The Corner: Yes, in about an hour.
Jones: 1 dare mat nunched the boat without asking the Admirulty
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