The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-05-27

they were attempting 10 cross the Allan
tic had alighted in md-ocean, arrived here
today on their way to London from Thur
So where they were landed by a British
warship yesterday They were heartily
cheered when their train LETT the station
at 10 o'clock
The correspondent of the Daily Mail
who IS travelling with Harry Hawker and
Lieut.. Commander Mackenzie Greve on
then way to this city, writes that there
were amazing scenes on the trip through
the Scottish highlands to Inverness At
every station women threw flowers and
kisses to the rescued aviators and men
clung to the train and sought to enter
while it was moving
| On their arrival at Inverness the avia-
| tors received a telegram from King George
inviting them to Buckingham palace on
| Wednesday.
Hawker's story of the fight follows:
we had a very difficult ground to rise
from on the other side To get in the
air at all we had to run diagonally across
the course. Once we got away we climbed
very we'll but about 10 minutes up we
passed from firm, clear weather into fog.
of the Newfoundland banks we got
well over the fog, however, and Of course,
lost sight of the sea The sky was quite
clear for the first few hours. when the
visibility became very bad Heavy cloud
banks were encountered, and eventually
we flew into heavy storm with rain
; squalls
: About five and one-half hours out, ow
r ing to the choking Of the filter, the tenn
, perature of the water cooling out the en-
| gines started to rise, but after comm!
,. down several thousand feet we overcam,
1 this difficulty.
- Everything went well for few hours
c when once again the circulation system
became choked and the temperature o
the water rose to the boiling point. We
p. OF course, realized that until the pipe wa
cleared we could not rise much highe
h without using a lot Of motor power.
h When we were about l012 hours o.
our way the circulation system was sti
giving trouble, and we realized we cou
not go on using up our motor power
Then it was we reached the fatefu
decision to play for safety. We change
h our course and began to fly dagonall
across the main shipping route for abou
e two and onehalf hours, when to our grea
e relief we sighted the Danish steamer
3 which proved to be the tramp, Mari
which signalled u.s.
We also sent up our very light distres
= signals. These she answered prompt
and then we flew on about two miles an
landed in the water ahead of the steame
The sea was exceedingly rough an
a despite the utmost efforts of the Danis
crew it was one and one-half hours b
fore they succeeded in taking us off
= was only at great risk to ther
selves, in fact, that they eventually su
ceeded in launching a small boat, own
g to the heavy gale from the northea
" which was raging
ut was found impossible to save Il
-" machine, which, however, is most pro
- ably ahoat somewhere in the mid-Atanti
Altogether, before being picked il
we had been l41a hours ont from Ne,
fomdland We were picked up at s.
:, british summer time1.
:" From Capt. Duhn of the Mary and |
" Danish crew we received the create
90 kindness on our journey home The sh
carried no wireless and it was not un
a. we arrived off the Butt Of Lewis that
b. were able to communicate with the a
et- thorties.
of "Of Loch Eireball we were met by t
le destroyer Woolston and conveyed to Sea
Flow, where we had a splendid wclcGl
70. home from Admiral Freemantle and t
ed men of the grand fleet