HAWKER’S JOURNEY.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1919, Page 2

HAWKER’S JOURNEY.

(Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.)

WHEN LAST SEEN. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.)

LONDON, May 24. The steamer Tactician which picked up Faraday’s wireless states shortly after the message was received the ves_ sel encountered a heavy cyclone. Other ships report a cyclone on Monday in mid-Atlantic.

The Sopwith Company states Hawker did not carry red lights. Wha.t Faraday saw may have been the flame from tli e engines’ exhaust pipes.

WHERE LAST SEEN. LONDON, May 23

The wireless Press states that it was the cable ship Faraday which sighted Hawker. It was the light of an aeroplane fifty degrees, twenty eight north and thirty degrees .02 west, in tho early hours of Monday. Roughly •it was in a direct line mid-way between St. John’s and A’alencia.

“DAILY MAIL’S” PRIZE.

LONDON, May 22

AATiile not abandoning hope of the survival of the missing airmen, the “Daily Mail” has offered to divide the £IO,OOO prize between Mrs Hawker and Lieut. Grieve’s next of kin.

The paper is also offering another £IO,OOO for the Atlantic competition.

HIS SIGNAL LIGHT,

(Received this day at 8.15 a.m.) ST. JOHNS, May 24,

Hawker carried a red, fiery light, to signal “all well” and ask his position..

SEARCH STOPPED

(Received This Dav at 9.50. a.m.) LONDON, -aay 24.

The steamer Sasmnanger reported seeing an aeroplane’s red Ycrey light in the same position ns the Faraday. A flotilla of eight British destroyers has returned to Queenstown, having re. linquishod the search for Hawker, extending for throe hundred miles eastward of the Irish coast. Hope is abandoned.

HAAYKER AND GRIEVE.

REPORTED PICKED UP.

(Received this day at 8.15 a.m.) LONDON, May 25

The Coastguard at Lewis, New Hebrides reports that a Danish steamer picked up Ilawkcr and Grieve.