TARGET FOR AEROPLANES

Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1933, Page 5

TARGET FOR AEROPLANES

GIRL IN A BOAT KILLS®

ROWED NEAR LINE OF BUftW*

BURST FROM MACHINE-GUNS

PLANES’ TRAGIC PRACTICE

By. Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Aug. 15. Seeing a child crying because its ball had been carried out to sea, Jean Che~terton, aged 15, and her sister Joan, aged 18, residents of Ilford on holiday at Leysdown, • Kent, rowed a quarter of a mile and recovered it in the neighbourhod of a row of buoys which the Air Force has used as targets since the war.

Suddenly five Territorial ’planes arrived and began machine-gunning tha buoys. One of the ’planes, mistaking the Chesterton’s boat for a target, fired a burst, hitting Jean, who crumped up in the stem. Other bullets pierced the boat. 4 . Joan signalled the ’planes and pulled at full speed for the shore in the hops of saving her sister’s life. Territorials with an ambulance and a doctor met the boat and found that Jean had been killed instantly. They carried Joan, who collapsed, to the bungalow of her griefstricken mother.