HAWKER'S SPLENDID EFFORT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1841, 29 August 1913, Page 7

HAWKER'S SPLENDID EFFORT.

GREAT RACE AGAINST TIME. AN ACCIDENT. HYDROPLANE A TOTAL WRECK. By Telegraph—Pross Association—Copyright . London, August 27. The flight round Great Britain at- , tempted uy Mr. Hawker, in a Sopwitli ' hydro-aoroplaiie, for tho "Daily Mail's'.' i prize of £5000, has come to an untimely end. i Hawker loft Oban at 6.40, after a delay of an hour owing to' a lcakv , float, and dosconded at Larue, on tho ' east coast of Antrim, at 9.30 for "otrol. His purpose was to reach Falmouth to- i day in order to completo tho circuit liefore 9.30 o'clock on Thursday morning. , Later, ho lost three hours through engino troubles, and his difficulties culminated in an accident at Laughsliinny, • near Dublin, where the left wine of the macliino snapped. Hawker pressed his foot on tho rudder valve, but his boot, being oily, slipped off, and tho machine fell ono hundred feet into tho sea. Hawker was not injured, but Kau-. pert, liis mechanician, sustained a broken arm. Coastguards rescued the men, and convoyed them to shore, where thoy rcceivod medical attention-. The raco against time created intense interest in Britain. Hawker c.overed 1043 miles in 1260 minutes. ! The "Daily Mail" lias awarded the hydro-pianist, Hawker, £1000. , Jl'lio High Commissioner for Australia, Sir Goorgo Roid, telegraphed to tile aviators, who aro Australians: "Win or lose, Australia is proud of you both." (Roc. August 28, 9.58 p.m.). London,. August 28 Hawke's waterplano, except ihe engine, is a total wreck. Tho newspapers unanimously afcclaim the hydro-pianist's magnificent efforts, whieli have shown that tho British Waterplano ere long will win. Mr. Churchill (First Lord of *ho Admiralty), in a message to tho "Daily Mail," says that Hawker acliioved a wonderful result; Tho competition was of real value to ,British flying. "Though wo started last," ho adds, "we must persevere till we are in the first place."