Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1919 — FATE OF HAWKER, INTERNATIONAL FLYER, UNKNOWN [ARTICLE]

FATE OF HAWKER, INTERNATIONAL FLYER, UNKNOWN

Loftdon, May 19.—London spent the day in tense excitement and suspense waiting the result of Harry Hawker’s bold attempt to fly across the Atlantic and, after a day of anxious inquiries and unverified rumors and speculation, the fate of the pilot and his navigator, Mackenzie Grieve, is still unkown. "■ A Sopwith machine supposed to be Hawker’s according to an admiralty wireless report descended to the surface of the ocean forty miles west of the Shannon. Later admiralty reports said that this information was mot considered reliable.,Eral unverified reports were that the Sopwith machine encountered a scale which reduced its speed to forty miles an hour and finally compelled it to descend, owing to exhaustion of gasoline. . , Crowds of people waited the day long at the Brooklands airdome where Hawker learned to fly, believing that the aviatqr would make his landing there, although experts had expressed the opinion that Hawkers would unlikely be able to fly there* The fate of Hawkers and Grieve cannot be definitely stated and tonight it is impossible even to assert that the machine found at sea is Hawl The weather off the coa . st ’ Monday was boisterous, with rain an The a admiralty has sent out all available ships to search for the aviators.