Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-26

London, May 25 CBy the A. F.1-I Missing for six days. and virtually given up for lost, Harry G. Hawker and his navigator, Lieutenant Com mander Mackenzie Grieve. the British airmen who essayed a flight across the Atlantic ocean, without protection against disaster save what their frail airplane afforded. are safe tonight board British warship off the Ork- neys. Tomorrow they will reach the mainland and will proceed to London, where they will be acclaimed as men returned to life.
 Some HOO miles out from New foundland, and 500 from the Irish coast, on Monday, May 19, the avia tors, 1 'Inaking the best of an engine which was failing to function properly, were forced to alight on the water. The lit tle Danish stea mer Mary, bound from New Orleans and Norfolk for Aarhuus, Denmark, picked the wayfarers up and continued on her northward voyage.
 Lacking a wireless outfit, the cap- i tain of the steamer was obliged to withhold the good tidings of the rescue until he was opposite Butte of Lewis, where the information was signalled by | means of flags that Hawker and Grieve were aboard his ship.
 Immediately word was flashed to the British admiralty. which sent out de- stroyers to overtake the Danish vessel and obtain absolute confirmation. This was done and one of the destroyers took the airmen off and later trans ferred them to the flagship Revenge. From this safe haven HaWker sent a message tonight that his machine had stopped owing to the blocking of the water circulation system. Tt was no fault of the Rolls Royce motor, which ran absolutely perfectly from start to finish. even when all the water had boiled away.
 We had no trouble in landing on the sea, where we were picked up by the tramp ship Mary. after being in the water for 90 minutes. We leave Thurso at ?. n. Monday, arriving in London Tuesday evening""
 When the airplane sped away from her starting point, Pilot Hawker let loose his wheels and under gearing, thereby tightening the weight of the machine by a considerable amount. making possible landing on the soil of Ireland more hazardous venture. This, however. probably proved of much advantage when it became necessary to alight on the surface of the water. The airplane remained afioat without difficulty during the hour and half it took the Danish steamer to come up and effect a res cue.
 Owing to the difficulties of communi- cauon, some time must pass before the full details of one of the most re- markable voyages ever undertaken are known.
 Tho one person in England who had always held hope was Mrs. HaWLer. She always maintained that Providence would protect her man. and. though she had received condolences from all classes of people. including the king. she said today that she had never ceased 10 believe that some time and m some way her husband would come back It IS officially announced by the ad = miralty that the aviators were picked up in latitude j0.20. longitude 29.3O naving allghted close to the little Danlsh steamer Mary, owing to a stoppage of circulation in the water pipes between the radiator and the water pump.
 The airplane, Sopwith machine was not salvaged.
 The first report of the avia tors since thelr famous jump off last Sunday came when the Mary, bound from Nortoik to Aarhuus, rounded the But ot Lewis today and wigwagged the aboard. ~
 Saved hands of Sopwlth airplane. was the signal
 'Is 1t Hawker?" was the question sent out by the flags from the Butt Which IS the most northwesterly poin 0t the Hebrides group off Scotland.
 es laconically replied the Mary
 The admiralty immediately sent ou a fast torpedo boat destroyer in an en deavor to intercept the Mary and talk OH the aviators. There was an anxious Wait or several hours, when the wor, was mashed that the destroyer ha, come across the steamer and trans ferred Hawker and Grieve, and wa taxing them to Thurso, on the north ern coast of Scotland, about 100 mile east Of the Butt of Lewis
 The destroyer. the Revenge, reporte to the admiralty this evening ina hawker and Grieve would sleep O board tonight, The aviators will reac London at o'clock Tuesday evening.
 The news of the rescue has electri ned all Britain. Eight destroyers afte thorough search of the Atlantic fo SeO miles from the Irish coast ha gwen up the quest, and there wa practically no hope that the airme were alive.
 This morning, however, the forlor hope that the aviators might be picke oP by sOllo CTdIL without wireless wa realized. The Danish steamer Mar. crawling along at nine knots. was tE lucky vessel and her brief message f the watchers at the Butt of Lewis 7 she proceeded on her way to Scotlan left the public to speculate wonderinf ly over the details of the airmen's af ventures.
 The admiralty immediately despa tel ed destroyers from northern points intercept the Mary and the Daily Ma instructed all signal stations to try communicate with the captain with Il urgent request to land the aviators some Scottish port. The admiral quest succeeded, and a wireless me same came from the destroyer Woo sun late in the evening that she h; overtaken the Mary and transferr the aviators.
 Nothing except some great battle h excited London more than today's u expected tidings. The public was di posed to question whether the first r port could be- trusted. and the admira ty statement that it was taking mea ures to verify the report indicat doubt, which the Woolsun's messa dispelled.
 The modest Hawker home near Su biton was quickly the center of inte est Crowds of people swarmed the Mrs. Hawkcr, who had only on Satu day received telegram of condoien from King George said:
 T had a ppeSentment all along tn