Show 1 TOSSES 29 HOURS ON ADRIATIC SEA young american airman adds to long list of perilous adventures RESCUED BY TORPEDO BOUT BOAT searching so mug for sami submarines of italy foe fee hydroplane goes wrong and drop doherty to in water wall seeks seek further ad adventure ente milan italy william ellwood doherty a y a y young no 9 A american whose whom career carce as on an air airman has abounded in peril oua omi adventure dv to has just added to his list at a fight for life A lasting more th than scafa arr iott twenty y nine il hours 1 tn t the 1 w wintry y wa tore tera ot of the adriatic once before he had been bee stranded in the same am bea 1 1 la midsummer and collapsed from thirst old and heat bell this time he lie had the other tb I 1 extreme of weather battling with a northern gale and was rescued when on the verge of 0 exhaustion austrian submarines were infesting the adriatic while the italians allana It i were ire re sending troop ships across access to albania doherty set out in a curtiss ayd hydroplane plane to petrel patrol the passage and give warning ot of danger lie he left toronto taranto at two I 1 clock in the after afternoon with lain a an italian helper As dayl daylight it we was tailing falling the motor broke down and the is hydroplane hydro lane dropped to the w tiar italian vessels were 1 in sight eight but did not at as aee doherty s signa signald for fee help ft it ith darkness the wind rose rosa and w waves ca broke over thoo ala tiny craft doherty tore away the dp pan ot of the machine beachm the tha two cold hungry wat m men used need it ft to ball bail with by working one at a time without stopping they were able to keep afloat although every high wave gave gava them afresh a fresh drenching they had bad lost the their nt provisions tim po in the descent to the w water a ti and in the tos tossing siong of the hydroplane their cigarettes and matches went over board the weather became intensely cold in the respite from hitting billing the air roan man who was tree free kept lookout lockout for a all ship one came in sight several hours after dark but pit P it on out not seeing the smoke bombs bomb with which the aviators its tried to hill it through out the night might and all the rest next morning the men relieved mitered each other with tho the drip pan bailer finally I 1 too tired to work long longer or a and nd de despairing repairing pairing of rescue dollar doherty t curled up in fa the tha ind end of the craft S cap over overcame him hot he be had bad right night m mare a and ad was roused when a in lurch rib of the plane nearly spilled ill him m I 1 into nto the sea again he took his turn tore at balling bailing the specter peril of if death was before J amicy the eyes 1 I 1 of b both it men when so night g lit tell fell once more then he a to torpedo do to hom boat t be headed toward tossed the them on appeared rod on a the im horl bar so zon they exploited exploded more or smoke bombs and wildly waved their signal flags flagg this time thy thoy war were seen am th tha torpedo boat approached lowered a small it boat and ad rescued called men and ad wreck twenty miles milea from fr shore italian craft had bad been looking inching tor for doherty and ad his ema companion unum ever at since ca the machine tailed failed them allow allowance a b had at d not been made for the wind wild A which blew toe tha unfortunates seaward old and the search we was confined to an are area comparatively near ill shore here until lit the tha torpedo boat struck out at lot into de the up open N naval 1 1 emare commanders midar who had bed 2 en 1 in the early search earch reported the tha first night flight that boherty bohan LY rd and hla his companion Om panion probably babl war were I 1 loal cal t their nit return t to shore bur was wan hailed too as BUI short of he miraculous doherty do A any recovered within till a do from ma be offe effects cut of 1 his I epo exposure so it I 1 is A had ad taken sub over r his it patrol trill duty a ID I 1 the he adriatic P low tincy however I 1 ad ann h I 1 decided pled to shift A ill his it ali field of activity it he has gone to apat ipat paris and I 1 london mall A i search ot c A unbar further adventure |