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area. and it was assumed that the
landing was made on the ice.
Wives Rejoice

wives NeyOlcc
In two homes there was great re-
joicing over the safety Of the flyers.
''Thank God! Oh, thank God!" Mrs.
James Fitzmaurice, who had waited
anxiously at Baldonnel airdromc,
Dublin, said. In Berlin, Mrs. Her.
mann koehl's voice shook with emo
ton when told Of the landing, say
ing, "You can not imagine what a
load you have taken off my mind"
On the flight Baron Won Hucnc-
field carried a four-leaf clover as an
omen Of good luck, given Fitz-
maurice last September, when he
tried to fly the Atlantic with Cap
tain r. H. Mcintosh and brought
him safely back to the sands of
Ballybunion Beach when the plane
was unable to fight it's, way through
storms off the Irish coast. When
the Bremen arrived at Baldonnel
from Berlin on March 26 Fitz-
maurice gave the baron his cher
ished shamrock to carry to America.
When it was decided that Fitz-
maurice should share the controls
with koehl, the baron, in return,
gave the 1rishman his most priced
luckpiece, the doll, which is about
an inch long.
News Slow in Coming
News of the flyers safety was
slow in reaching Il world because
of the isolated spot where they
landed. 1t travelled across the ice
10 miles by either dog sled tr cour-
Ter to Long Point, (Lourdes de Blanc
Sablon) on the mainland opposite.
From there it went by land wire II
miles to Point Amour, Labrador,
where the radio station sent it to an
anxious world.
The first message picked up at
St. Johns, N. F., read:
Point Amour-German plane at
Greenly island. Wind southeast.
Thick" (Signed) w. F. Barrett"
Barrett is the radio operator at
Point Amour, on the sout, I'm tip Of
Labrador, where the Newfoundland
government maintains q small sta
ton for the protection OF fisheries.
Later radio station INA ct Man.
chester, N. H., picked sp this mes
sage from the Canadian govern
ment at Louisburg, N. S.:
German plane landed at Greenly
island, known Slightly damaged.
Crew WELL"
Then Baron Won Huehefeld sent
this message 10 General Manager H.
Schucngel Of the North German
LlOyd Line in New York:
"Made safe intermediate landing
on Greenly Island, Straits Belle
Isle, necessitated by lack of fuel
caused by strong headwinds and fog.
Inform press"
Ask for More Fuel
Later second message was re-
ceived from the Baron saying the !
propeller and landing gear were
damaged and asking for fuel. From
this it was assumed that the flyers
were eager to carry on in their own |
plane to New York and also from
the use Of the word intermediate"
in the first message.
To repeated demands for more in
formation, the radio station at Point
Amour sent out this reply:
Don't know particulars now.
Only dog teams possible. About 20
miles to relay news. Have sent
by foot
Explanation of the fact that the
plane was nearly 500 miles off her
course was seen in a remark made
by Commander Donald A. MacMil-
Ian, arctic explorer, last summer.
the fate of the French
flyers, Nungesser and Coli, first to
perish on the east to west passage,
he said he believed compass varia-
ton took the French flyers north
ward Of their course.
"Fog"-one Of the words in Baron
Won Huenefeld's message-also Of
fered a possible explanation of the
landing far to the north.
There were world wide congratu-
lations on the first accomplishment
Of feat which had taken the lives
Of five men and two women in three
east-west flights in the last year.