[?]ARGET TRAGEDY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 614, 19 August 1933, Page 5

[?]ARGET TRAGEDY

' jSUN glare causes s mistake by , | airmen iel " fsoat in safety area

|Assn. — By Telegraph— Copyright).

London, Aug. 17. Badict of death by misadventure ■prned at the inquest on Miss ^Chesterton. '"JiJoan, the sister of the victim, wridence that she saw the danJjb, but was perfectly sure they Wiitside the danger zone. jjlpaftsnian Boahmia, who fired iS'-al shot, gave evidence that he '•fire until he was past the red Jhen ho aimed at the first obi saw, thinking it was the tar3e added that the sun's glare all look alike. l of the Air Force ashore who feponsible for the signals, gave k that the hoat was within the f area, but the fliers expressed finior> that the boat was suffiI closo to the danger zone to iaken for a target, especially in the glare. ■jury advocated better demarcthe danger zone.. ||hig a child crying because her Bd been carried to sea, Jean Hafton, 15, and her sister, Joan, gf:o were spending a holiday at Igjvm, ICent, rowed a quarter of ■and recovered it. The boat was Ip.the neighbourhood of a row IMS, which the Air Force has ■13 targets since the^ wqr. SudB five territorial aeroplanes ar- ■ and the crews began machine■•ractice at the buoys. One gun■^istaking the girls' boat for a 11;. fired a burst of shots. The ■ ean was hit and crunipled tip in ■em.