SAVED FROM SEA

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 244, 14 September 1932, Page 7

SAVED FROM SEA

HUTCHINSON FLYING FAMILY

RESCUED BY TRAWLER.

LANDED IN GREENLAND,

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.)

Received September 14, 10 a.m, RUGBY, Sept, 13,

Tho trawler Lord Talbot wirolessed to Reykjanik that it had rescued the members of tho flying Hutchinson family—who were forced to alight on tho sea near Greenland when en route to Denmark from the United States — and conveyed them to Finsbu wireless station, East Greenland. Tho mastor and crew of the Lord Talbot had been engaged in the painstaking search off the Greenland coast near Angmagssalik for the Hutchisons since Sunday afternoon. It was one o’clock this morning when a signal from the flying family was observed, but the swell made it impossible to effect a rescue in the dark. Tho flying family was found at the lower end of Ikersuak fiord, 50 miles south of Angmagssalik. which is the headquarters of tho British survey expedition, two of whose members joined in the search by motor boat. Tlie owners’ trawler had given Captain Watson, who is an intrepid and resourceful skipper, instructions to render every possible assistance in tlie search and to fall in with any wish expressed by Mr Hutchinson. Tho Lord Talbot is a vessel of 325 tons and one of the best equipped trawlers in the Aberdeen fleet.

After landing the family, the crew of tho trawler proceeded to tho fishing ground.

MACHINE WRECKED.

Received September 14, 8.45 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 13. The rescue of tlie Hutchinsons was tho result of three trawlers sweeping the ocean abreast for 55 miles. Darkness was falling when tlie Lord Talbot saw a flare far to the east. Ice rendered an approach hazardous. The vessel signalled in Morse, to which Mr Hutchinson replied: “All well.” The Lord Talbot stood by till daylight. Another message says that the machine was wrecked.

Earlier messages stated that Knud Rasinusson was in an inaccessible spot and it was imposisble for wireless to reach him so be was unable to help in the search for the Hutchinsons, though several flying men, ships and Eskimo parties continued the search. The Hutchinsons were without Arctic equipment so they would quickly perish even if they reached land. Ships continued to send up rockets all night in the iceberg-ridden seas, but there had been no response since tlio Hutchinsons’ wireless faded, out.

The Copenhagen newspaper Politiken declared that tho Government forbddo the Hutchinsons landing in Greenland because it realised such flights were unsuitable and useless, especially where women and children were concerned. \

PROTEST AGAINST FLIGHT.

LONDON, Sept. 13. Under the heading, “Gambling with Children’s Lives,” the Daily Express in a leader protests against Hutchinson’s fight. The paper says it is not too early to denounce the folly and selfishness which prompted this latest publicity incident. Tho News-Chronicle hopes that children will never again be exposed to so cruel a fate. Tho inclusion of children in such a foolhardy expedition seems really indefensible.