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Show W PLANE FOR HOPOFF ST 0PHT Deferred Start to Portu gal Scheduled for Daybreak; Day-break; Aviators Confident Con-fident of Full Success. Hawker and Companion Warmly Received in Scotland ; to Extend Both Official Greeting. PONTA DELGADA, May C6. (By the Associated Press.) The motors of the American seaplane NC-4 were tuned up this afternoon and the plane, under command com-mand of Lieutenant Commander Read, will probably start for Lisbon at daybreak day-break tomorrow. The weather experts predict favorable weather with westerly winds at the flying fly-ing altitude of between twenty and thirty miles an hour around tho Azores, dlmin-Mshing dlmin-Mshing to five miles an hour off the- coast of Portugal. Cloudy weather may be encountered midway in the course. HAWKER TELLS OF MISHAP TO PLANE IN MIDATLANTIC By ROBERT WELLES RITCHIE, Universal Service Staff Correspondent. LONDON", May 20. One and a half hours were required by the Danish ship Mary to effect the rescue of Harry (J. Hawker and Lieutenant Commander Kenneth Ken-neth Mackenzie Grieve. The two British aviators were rescued from the ocean at S:30 o'clock on Monday morning (Greenwich (Green-wich time). These facts were made known tonight by Hawker in an Interview. He added that he was twelve and a half hours away from tho Newfoundland coast when lie and his companion were compelled to make a play for safety. Accordingly, they took a 90-dee:ree turn in their course and flew across tne main shipping route. They hovered over the lane lor two and a half hours before the Mary was sighted. Signals from the Sop with plane were answered promptly and the British aviators avi-ators essayed a landing on the sea, coining coin-ing down ahead of the steamer afttir flying fly-ing with her for about two miles. A very heavy sea was encountered, the airmen being compelled to battle with the sea for ninety miles before being taken aboard. The Sopwith machine did not sink. Efforts Ef-forts to Have the plane were fruitless, but she probably is still afloat somewhere on the Atlantic. "Of course, we realized that until the pipe was cleared," Hawker satd( "we couldn't rise much higher without using a lot of motor power. When we were twelve and a half hours out from iSt. Johns, our circulation was still troubling us, but we realized that wo couldn't go on without using up all our motor power before reaching land. "Then we made the fateful decision to play safe. So we changed our course and began to fly diagonally across the main shipping route. We had been on this course for two hours and a half, when, to our great relief, we sighted the little Dan ish steamer that took us up. "As soon as we sighted the ship we set off our very light distress signals. They were answered promptly, and we flew mi for some miles further and we landed Just ahead of the steamer. "The sea was very rough and, despite the utmost efforts of the crew. It was an hour and a half after our landing before thev managed to get us on board. "The crew of the Mary made the rescue at great risk to themselves. The small borii was launched only after the Krentost difficulty and it was thrown about like a chip on a rough sea, stirred up by the i her. vy northeast gale that was blowing. "Because of the heavy sea running, it whf impossible m save nur machine. It is probably still afloat in the middle of the Atlantic. Altogether, before being pi--kfd up we had been fourteen - hours out from the coast of Newfoundland. We were picked up at R:30 o'clock Monday morning (Greenwich time). "Captrun I)uhn and the Danish crew of the Mary extended to us the grn test kindness and made us as comfortable as thev possibly could. "Off T.och Kn-ihol. the British destroyer Wools ton took us on hoard and broucn t us to Sea pa flow, where we got a splendid wc'icome from Admiral Frema ntie and the m.n of the grand fleet." Mackenzie Grieve, th" taciturn navigator navi-gator of the Sopwith, said: "When we were : few hundred mils dt, a strong northerly gale drove us stadi:v out of our set course. It was not always possible for us to take bearing on account of the dense cloud misses and I calculate that when we finally determine to cut across tn steamship routes we wor at least 200 miles off our course. "1 'p to the time we turned we had covered about "000 miies toward Iceland." No; merely a:; men escaped from tir jaws of d-jath. b;:t as vi.-;o.'s In a darin-' enterr'rls". will Harry Ha 7'kcr ur.cl Mtr-kenzle Mtr-kenzle Grl'e be receive! in London tomorrow to-morrow That the'r ef-rp'-i-.q fa i lei of 1 (Continued on Pago 3, Column 2.) IVY Pbt MADE REM FDR If OFF (Continued from Pago One.) success because of unavoidable accident means nothing to London in its joy over the safe return of the men who had been given up for dead. The two aviators came asffbre at Thurso, Thur-so, Scotland, this afternoon, after spending spend-ing t he night on board H. M. S. Revenge in Seapaflow, the graveyard of tlio German Ger-man navy, as guests of Admiral Fre-niantle. Fre-niantle. They took train immediately for London and are due here at 7 o'clock tomorrow to-morrow evening. Their greeting bids fair to be or the same enthusiastic character as that which followed the signing of the armistice armis-tice last November, or the memorable demonstration of Mafelting night, in the time of the Boer war, which added a new verb to the language. |
