AVIATORS' THRILLING EXPERIENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 18 December 1913, Page 8

AVIATORS' THRILLING EXPERIENCE.

SY CABLE—PBBSB ASSOCIATION-COPYBIGHT. v(Reeeived Dec. 18- 9.31 am) ■■'■■. LONDON, Dec. 17. fealmet, an aviator, accompanied by JMrs Assheton Harbord; left Folke©tone on Sunday morning and crossed the, Channel in a stiff south-wester. In the ram and fog banks he lost his sense of direction, and descending nearer the water discovered from a fishing smack that, he was being blovva ta& right angles to the proper course. A fter correcting the direction he found »i vas making little, headway, and as ; .-orrrr^ tiny amount of petrol was left .tie decided to descend to the water iiear a~pas6ing steamer. Through a break in the fog he saw a ship and ■ tried..:vainly, to reach it. Then a - shadow loomed up to the south, and lie headed for it and landed at Dieppe he thought was Boulogne. v<