RESCUED

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10290, 27 May 1919, Page 5

RESCUED

HAWKER AND GRIEVE

PICKED UP BY STBAMBB IN MID-OCEAN.

By Telegraph—Pros? Association— Copyrisfc'

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, May 2b.

An Admiralty official report states. The steamer Mario has transferred Hawker and Grieves to the destroyer Woolston, which is proceeding to Thurso, in the north of Scotland. (Received May 26, 8 p.m.)

LONDON, May 23.

The Admiralty states that Hawker and Grieve ai'o in good health. .1 hey were picked up in latitude 50.20 ?«., longitude 30 W., after alighting close to the steamer Marie.

The part of the ocean on which the aviators alighted was a little more than half-way between St. John's, Newfoundland, and Bantry Bay, Ireland, and about SOO miles north ol the Azores, for which the American airmen made. Hawker evidently made a direct course for tho Kerry coast and descended at a point about the same distance from St. John’s as tho Azores. AVIATORS 90 MINUTES IN THE WATER. . GRIEVE AWARDED CONSOLATION PRIZE. (Received May 27, 12.5 a.m.) LONDON, May 26. Admiralty official: —Hawker alighted owing to stoppage of circulation o' the water in tho pipe between, the radiated and pump. The exact position waa latitude 50.20 north, longitude 29.30 west. Another report states that Hawker ,and Grieve were in the water ninety minutes. The “Daily Mail*' has awarded Grieve the £SOOO consolation prize. RETURNED SOLDIERS JUBILANT. Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, May 26. The news that Hawker had been picked up was received at the Returned Soldiers’ Association Conference today with loud applause, and it was immediately decided to cable Hawker congratulating him and expressing appreciation o! his great feat.