NO SIGN OF HAWKER

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 22 May 1919, Page 5

NO SIGN OF HAWKER

ADMIRALTY REPORTS

IMPOSSIBLE TO PATROL THE

ATLANITC

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT

LONDON, May 20

The Admiralty at nine o'clock this «vening istated that there was no news j regarding Hawker, and gave an official j denial to the report that Hawker I reached within 100 miles of Ireland. I The report aroused the keenest sym- ! pathetic speculation respecting his actual fate. It is feared that Hawker cannot have survived. He possibly de- \ scended in mid-Atlantic, and his lowpowered wireless was probably insufficient to call any ship. An official communique points out that the chances of finding Hawker are, very remote, owing to the area which? the destroyers must scour. The com-J munique adds that even if it had been otherwise desirable to assist the enter-! prise, which is in no sense under Gov-! ernment control, it would have been ( impossible to patrol the Atlantic, oxv-> ing to the Navy's heavy obligation. The same remark applies to future flights. The Government warns other competitors that it is impossible for the Navy to patrol the Atlantic course.