31 MAY 1919, Page 2

Some days after the great majority of people had given

up Mr. Hawker and. his gallant companion ae lost, both men- were resting from their labours, hospitably entertained in a Danish tramp steamer, which had picked them up in mid-ocean. Having no wireless, and voyaging round the North of Scotland, the tramp's first contact vine with the Butt of Lewis, whence the signal station flashed the splendid news last Sunday. Some scraps of solder, working loose and choking a water-pipe, had maimed the aeroplane. She did not fall like a wounded gull, but descended after leisurely marking down a steamer. From Scapa to London Mr. Hawker and his companion made a triumphal progress to Buckingham Palace, whore the Sing decorated them on Wednesday.