The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-26
EAWKER AND AIDE
| RESCUED At SEA,
|. GOING TO OLONDON
Britain Thrilled by Announce
ment That Daring Ocean
Aviator Is Safe After Hav-
ing Been Given Up as Dead.

LONDON, May 26.--Harry G. Hawker
and his daring navigator. Lieutenant
Commander Mackenzie Grieve, were ex-
pected to land upon British soil today
and proceed directly to London, follow
ing a night spent aboard the British
flagship Revenge, in the Orkneys, after
their transfer from the little Danish
steamer Mary by a British destroyer.
News of the rescue at sea of the
atrmen, who have been reported as
missing and were virtually given up
as dead after their attempat at a flight
across the Atlantic from Newfoundland,
has electrified London.
Some l,1(0 miles out from Newfound-
land and 500 from the Irish coast on
Monday, May 10, the aviators making
the best of an engine which was fail
ing to function properly, were forced to
alght on the water. The little steamer
Mary, bound from New Orleans. and
Norfolk for Aarhus, Denmark. picked
the wayfarers up and continued on her
nor.hward voyage.
Lacking a wireless outfit, the cap
tain OF the steamer was obliged to with
hold tidings of the rescue until he was
opposite Butt of Lewis, where the in
formation was signalled by means of
flags, that Hawker and Grieve were
aboard his ship.
Immediately word was flashed 70 the
British admiralty, which sent out de-
stroyers to overtake the Danish vessel
and obtain confirmation. This was
done and one of the destroyers took the
airmen off. and later transferred them
TO the flagship Revenge.
When the airplane sped away from
her starting point Pilot Hawker lei
loose his wheels and undcrgearing,
thereby tightening the weight OF the
machine by a considerable amount, but
making a possible landing on the soil
" Ireland Z more hazardous venture.
This, howeyer, probably proved of much
advantage when il became necessary to
flight on the surface OF the water. The
iirplane remained afloat without diff
Iulty during the hour and half it took
The Danish steamer to come up and
lffect a rescue.
The one person in England who had
slways held hope was Mrs. Hawker.
Ihe always maintained that Providence
would protect her man, and, though
The received condolences from all
rasses of people, including the king,
she said today that she had never
neased to believe that some time and
In some way her husband would come
back. -A'.s-@e-
There was a merry party in the home
OF Hawker. near ,Surbiton. last night,
many callers, including. Thomas o. Sop
with, head Of the Sopwlth aviation
company, builders of the. machine IN
Atlantic, going to the house to con-
graduate Mrs Hawker. Many airmen
were among those who called.
Mrs Hawker never lost confidence
that her husband would be rescued.
Even Saturday evening she still was
hopeful, declaring Sunday was her lucky
day.
I'VE shall have good news tomor-
row"
Yesterday her home was inundated
with kilograms Of congrat tulations. and
the telephone in the gaily beflagged
dwelling was constantly ringing.
An official statement confirming news
dispatches of the rescue of HawRer
and Lieutenant Commander Mackenzie
Grieve was issued last night. II fol-
lows
Harry G. Hawker and Lieutenant
!, ommander Grieve were rescued in lat
itude 50 degrees al J 20 minutes north
and longitude 20 grees 80 minutes
west They alight close to a steamer
owing to a defect Me water circula :
ton of their mo SBoth men are in
perfect health. Srhe airplane was not
saved"
The London Daily Mail which offered
a purse of $50, 900 for the first flight by
a heavier -than-air craft across the At
antic ocean, will give Hawker and
Grieve a consolation prize of $25,00o.