REPORTED SAFE

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1932, Page 5

REPORTED SAFE

THE HUTCHINSONS GRAVE FEARS NOW DISPELLED. S' ... V- (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) } ' COPENHAGEN, September 13; ■' Pasmussen is in an inaccessible spot and it ,is impossible for the wireless to irefach him, so that ’he will be unable to help in th© search lor the Hutchinsons.-, .. . • The Hutchinsons ar© without any equipment for their plane, '■ so that they, would quickly perish, even, if they reached land. r , . • Snips continue to send up rockets a’l night in the iceberg-ridden seas, but there has been no response to these since the Hutchisons’ wirele s faded out. LONDON PAPER’S CRITICISM. V DENUNCIATION OF F-UIGHT. * LONDON,; Septe»wber ;, -13. Under the heading “Gambling with JOhildfleifa ; • the ?‘D»ily Ex- ■ press, 'jn ja .. leading artia!©'‘protests against the Hutchisons’ 'flight. The paper »ay»: “It is not too early to denounco th® folly and se'.fla’hneas which have prompted tins 1 ' latest publicity- incident.’ 1 : \ The “Daily Chronicle” hopes that children will never again be exposed ■without reason to so cruel a fate, The inclusion of children in such a foolhardy Expedition,, it says, 'seems really V indefensible. >'■ •/ - FLIGHT MADE AGAINST ADVICE. INTERVIEW BEFORE THE START. ■ LONDON, September 13. Against the advice of -their friends, the Hutchin;?on> fami'y 'hopped off late in August on.-th© first-stage of a flight from the , United States : to England. 'Planning to “just jog along,” they left, on the northward route, and on September 2 left the coast of Labrador for, Godhaab (Greenland).' There they landed without “’at permit, and, after being detained for come, days, were / allowed to proceed after- paying a fine of approximately £IOO. The flight,' which was' being made in a giant amphibian ’plane, attracted the • f attention of the'whole of America. Be/J " ing the first ‘attempt at an Atlantic '■* crossing by air-taxi, it held unusual .toterest for aviation authorities, for, if ■successful, it would' point to the feasi- ‘ bility of ; such flights' on a,'regular basis. 'ln an interview' before their departure, Mrs Hutchinson said: “W® have visited -®tttS ’’in States, and we have I 'flown thousands of l> miles without mishap. We will just ' Jog along across the Atlantic, the isamo vs anywhere <^s©— -no hurry whatever, !We will just '"' wait for good flying weather, fly a' few- hundred miles and l rest isome more. The children wre very excited, at the prospect of seeing. Eskimos.; They will have their nap every day in the ’plane’s lounge. W© ehall be O.TC. ’ li’s just our way of seeing the world.!’ , THE HUTCHINSONS’ RESCUED. BY TRAWLERS SWEEPING OCEAN. h/ ' (Kcoeived tiiia-day at a.in) LONDON, September 13. Trawler, LPrd- TaibOf; wirelessed from Reykjavik that it has located the Hutchinsons, rescuing at daylight. ' ,fll ' A Copenhagen newspaper, “Poll tiken,” declares that the Government forbade the Hutchinsons landing at -Greenland; because they realised that such flights were unsuitable and useless, especially'Where woman and chi.cJren were.involvedi The rescue of the Hutchinsons was the result of three trawlers sweeping the ocean abreast, for fi.Ty-five miles. Darkness was falling , .when the Lord Talbot saw a flare far to the east. 1 Ice rendered the approach hazardous, and the vessel signalled in morse to which the Hutchinsons replied: ‘‘All welt” The Lord Talbot stbod by till daylight. •; Another message says that the maV.f chine is wrecked. ~\ The Hutchinsons were conveyed to FinsbUj a wireless station, east of Greenland. \ ,