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Show SAVE HAWKER AND GRIEVE FROM SEN d AVIATORS WHO WERE "LOST" FOR FULL WEEK PICKED UP BY DANISH SHIP. Machine Stopped Owing to Engine' Trouble and Men Were in Water Hour and a Half Before Being Picked up by Little Steamer. London. Harry (1. Hawker and Lieut. Commander Mackenzie Grieve, the two airmen who started on May 18 in an attempt to fly across the Atlantic ocean from St. Johns, N. F., have been picked li) at sea and landed in Scotland. Scot-land. Both men are In perfect health. It Is officially announced by the admirality thai the aviators were picked up iii latitude 50.20 longitude 20.30, having alighted close to the little lit-tle steamer Mary, owing to a stoppage stop-page of circulation in the water pipes between the radiator and the water pump. Hawker and Grieve were In the water for an hour and a half before being taken aboard the steamer Mary. In view of the rescue of the avia- , tors, Lord Northcliffe's order for a division of the Daily Mail prize of $50,000 between the families of Hawker and Grieve now becomes void, but the Mail announces that a consolation prize of $25,000 will be divided between the two men who made such a gallant attempt at-tempt to accomplish the feat and secure se-cure the honor of the first trans-Atlantic crossing for Britain. Iu an interview Monday night, Harry Har-ry !. Hawker said that be was twelve and a half hours away from the NewJ-foundland NewJ-foundland coast when he and his companion com-panion were compelled to make a play for safety. Accordingly, they tool; a 90-degree turn in their course and flew across the main shipping route. They hovered over the lane for two and a half hours before the Mary was sighted. Signals from the Sopwith plane were answered promptly and the British aviators avi-ators essayed a landing on the sea,' coming down ahead of the steamer after flying 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 to save the plane were fruitless, fruit-less, but she probably is still afloat somewhere on the Atlantic. St. Johns. N. F. News of the rescue of Hurry Hawker and Lieutenant Commander Com-mander Mackenzie Grieve, which was flashed here Sunday by wireless, was received here with the greatest enthusiasm, en-thusiasm, especially iu the Martinsyde camp at Quid! Vldl, where Hawker's rival, Captain Frederick P. Raynham, is pushing preparations for another attempt to make the crossing. Hawker and Grieze made a host of friends during dur-ing their stay here and the general conviction that they had been lost at sea had caused sincere sorrow. Sunday's Sun-day's report of their safety brought a corresponding degree of gladness to the hearts of their numerous friends and well wishers. |