ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12636, 22 May 1919, Page 3

ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

HAWKER'S FATE. ALL HOPE ABANDONED, LONDON, May 20. Tim hope of finding Hawker has. been ' abandoned. There is a galo in the Atlantic. STATEMENT BY THE ADMIRALTY EARLIER REPORT OFFICIALLY DENIED. LONDON, May 20. Hie Admiralty at nine o’clock this evening stated that there was no news regarding Hawker and gave an otVicial denial to the report that ho reached ; within a hundred miles of Ireland. | the report has aroused the keenest 1 sympathetic speculation respecting Hawker’s actual fate. It is feared that ho cannot have survived. He possibly descended in mid-Atlantic, liis lowpowered wireless being probably insufhcient to call any ship. HOPE OF RESCUE EXTREMELY REMOTE. LONDON, May 20 (11.55 p m.). An official communique points out; that tho chances of finding Hawker are extremely remote owing to the area which the destroyers must scour. Tho communique adds Even if it hud been otherwise desirable to assist the enterprise, which was in no sense under Government control, it would have been impossible to patrol the Atlantic owing to the Navy’s heavy obligations. _ Tho same remark applies to future flights. The Government warns other competitors that it is impossible for the Navy to patrol the Atlantic course.”