HAWKER'S FATE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 21 May 1919, Page 7

HAWKER'S FATE

STATEMENT IN HOUSE OF

COMMONS

FALSE NEWS EXPLAINED

: (Received May 21,-12.55 pan.) LONDON, May 20. The Hon. T. J. Machamaraj in the House of Commons, stated that after Hawker started all available ships on the Irish coast were ordered to sea by wireless. Presumably a: French station picked up the message in fragmentary form, misconstrued ft, and retransmitted it, stating that Hawker had fallen into the sea. Castletown station picked up the message and sent it to It is/: probablythe- explanationo^cthe; fafeeoae^fi. ETMs'inessa^, suggests Hawker is cafe, though the only news of such being the ease is contained in the following few lines cabled . from New York and published in .an earlier edition on page 5: "The London correspondent of the New York Times states that the Admiralty .has announced that Hawker was picked up'4o miles west of Loop Head, opposite ihe. mouth of the Shannon. Apparently there is another message yet to come to hand which will explain the -matter.]