RESCUED.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 28 May 1919, Page 4

RESCUED.

e . HAWKEii AND GMEVE. 1 =• "■ i PICKED UP BY STEAMER IN MID-OCEAN. I London, May 25, An Admiralty official report states: The steamer Marie lias transferred Hawker and Grieve to the destroyer Woolston, which is proceeding to Thurso, in the north of Scotland, J The Admiralty states that Hawlicr s' and Grieve are in good health. "They were picked up in latitude 50.20 N., longitude 50 W., after alighting close to the steamer Marie..

' Tire 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 SCO miles north of the Azores, for which the American airmen made. Hawker evidently made a direct course for the Kerry coast and dcscend•cd at a point about the same distance from St. John’s as the Azores. AVIATOES 90 MINUTES IN THE WATER. GRIEVE AWARDED CONSOLATION j PRIZE. '' : London, May 25. Admiralty official. —Hawker alighted j| owing to stoppage of circulation of tlie water in" the pipe between the radiator and pump. - The exact position was' latitude 50.20 north, longitude 29.50 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. 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 of his great feat.