Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-27

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 27.-The correspond
emit of the Daily Mail, who is traveiing
with Harry G. Hawker and Lieut.
Commander Mackenzie Grieve on
their way to this city, sends from
Scotland, . detailed 81
count of the difficulties encountered
By the two airmen during their un-
fui sttsmps "a "a
During the first four hours ct the
voysne the air was freezing cold. but
the airmen were quite comIottaot.e.
Hawker. however, was unaDle %
steer a good course because OF INC
clouds, being at times forced TO 30
around them. 80 soo ,,,,..
o,,t fo sea the weather continued very
bad and clouds rose to great heignt.
Several times Hawker tried to clear
them. hut lost height at every at
tempt. and each time tine machine
was started climbing the Wate, n
the radiator bo1led 1uriousiy'
involved waste.
Height Of 1900 Feet.
At last, however. the airplane
reached a height Of $4,000 feet, ana
it was decided to stay at that level
for the rest of the trip.
eve had not as yet doubted being
successful in getting across" Hawker
said in describing his experiences:
1--WE were at that time above most
~ the clouds. The moon had risen
and we were keeping good course,
although we had to go nt. LES si1 az
er and close the throttle TO Keep the
frou, heating no.
1--WE continued at this height until
we had been in the air twelve and
half hours. Then came heavy CLOUDS
aeain They were very high, reaching
o level of 5000 feet and being very
black. It was almost Impossible 10
steer through them and each time L
tried to climb the water boiled oaoly.
Hawker then described his enorts 10
end the cause of the trouble with the
voter cooling system and said that he
concluded something had got into the
water filter between the radiator and
Tho numps. and that the only thing to
do was to stop the motor and put the
rose of the machine down steeply,
With the hope that this might clear
awov the refuse in the filter. This was
successful.
Descent to Height Of 1000 Feet.
Tn view of the difficulty Of going
+hroueh the clouds, the aviators de-
cided to go beneath them.
"Comine down to a height OF about
600 feet" Hawker said, we found IL
biacker than ever. and eventually. got
~ 900 feet above the water before
We could see to fly. We started on
our course again with the sun just
Using but could not keep the tenn
nerature below the boiling point.
"Then it was we reached the fateIul
decision to play for SAFETY. we
across the main shipping
route for about two and half hours.
when. to our great relief. we sighted
a Danish steamer. which proved to
be the tramp Mary.
1.-The wind was blowing half gaze
from the northeast and we were get
ting knocked about badly when we
sighted the ship close to our port bow.
we were fairly in fog with the
clouds low, and were almost on top Of
her before we saw her.
I'VE sent up our very hight distress ssa
promptly and then we flew on about
two miles and landed in the water
ahead of the steamer.
1--WE made a very good landing, al
though the sea was high. The ma
chine boated at an even keel well out
Machine Begins to Sink.
1--WE watched the steamer approach
ing and put out our own boat and
stood by in case the machine should
break up and sink, which she began
to do rapidly in the heavy sea. The
sea was running up to twelve feet and
breaking right over the machine
and us.
"Our life saving suits kept US dry,
and for an hour and a half we
watched the crew trying to launch a
lifeboat The Mary was only 200 yards
After much difficulty the lifeboat
succeeded in reaching us. We boarded
it and were pulled to the ship by a
line.
lowing to the heavy sea it was i'm
possible to salve anything. When we
got to the ship we were without our
Boots and caps. while Grieve also had
lost his coat. We were very sorry to
lose a lot Of valuable instruments and
the mail