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HAWKER.
Crash in Trial Flight. Mr. Harry G. Harker, the not ed airman, was killed early in the vening of July 12 while lying near Hendon.
the
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THE DEATH OF HARRY lands that he learnt to By. The Bart of Lewis telegraphs this maoning he first piloted was a morning 13 follows:-Danish Burgess-Wright, and his turor steamer Mary passing eastwards was Mr. T. Q. M. ropwith. He signalled following: "Saved hands took his pilot's certificate on Sap Sopwith aeroplane. Station sig- tember 12, 1912, and almost as nailed. 'Is it Hawker? Steamer once began to show signs of the replied. Yes. Staps wers im- Prowess for which he was to mediately taken by the Admiralty made a great attempt to win men embarked on the destroyer come famous In August, 1913, ne to intercept the Mary, and the air
He had ascended in Nieuport The areat was contested in sea-Thurso.
mir race round Britain Woolston. They were landed at machine for a practice flight in planes, and at that time Hawker preparation for the Aerial Derby. had had very little experience of written by Hawker from H.M.S. The next news came in a latter When the aeroplane was at them. After a false start he flew Revenge, at Scapa. He said: great height it was seen by 1,040 miles out of 1,540 before he "My machine stopped owing to number of people to burst into was wrecked in Lough Shinny. the water filter in the feed-pipe flames. It then nose-dived, turn But before that he had won for from the radiator to the water- ing over two or three times is its Mr. Sopwith the Mortimer Singer cock being blocked up with re fall, and crashed in an open field at Burnt Oak, which lies between to land and water alternatoly be-shaking loose in the radiator. It prize of £500 for six descents Dafuse, such as solder and the like,) the Hendon Aerodrome and Edgtween flights of five miles. In was no fault of the motor (Rolls- ware. It is believed that Hawker 1912 he created. British record Royce). The motor ran absolute- was making his way back to the for daration by dying for eight ly perfectly from start to finish, aerodrome when the accident oc- hours and 23 minutes og curred.
even when all the water bad. Members of the Hardon Fira Sopwith-Burgess biplane with a boiled away. I had no trouble in
40-h.p. A BC engine. That event landing in the sea. Brigade, who were near by, at took place at a time when the picked up by the tramp ship Mary once rushed to the spot. Hawker was found some distance from possibilities that lay in British after being in the water le the machine quite dead. The engine construction bad not hours. body was terribly injured, but In the year following he devoted adequate estimate of Hawker's bean by any means established. Perhaps that sentence gives an there were no marks of batas.himself to the question of al-courage and his point of view Hawker apparently jumped or fallen from the machine then a series of fine climbing per ble in landing in the sea.”
having titodes, and put up what were when in danger I had no ton- during the fall. The body was removed to Hendon Mortuary by Mr. F.W. Adams, chief officer of the Hendon Fire Brigade. The machine was completely destroy ed except for the engine.
Mr. Adams and his men were returning from a fire at Mill Hill
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We were
LONDON'S WELCOME HOME. He had crashed in the Round
There has never been anything Britain race. He crashed again quite like Hawker's reception in at Brooklands the same year and London. He was an Australian was taken hurt to hospital. Six and Australians-the war bad months later he tell at Albury, in helped us to know them better South Wales, and then, not long took a leading part in it, in fact. the time of the accident afterwards, he fell into some trees they took the matter into their! Describing the airman's death, heBrooklands from a height of own hands. Led by Australian | said:-"It was a little after & 500ft. while looping. His machine saldiers, great crowds, which had o'clock. My men were on the smashed, but the airman gathered at King's Cross Station motor fire-engine and I was riding was not hurt. He had 30- and in the streets through which a motor-cycle some distance in other narrow escape at Brook the airman passed to the Royal front, when we noticed an aefell off the engine of his machine
lands in 1916. when the cowling Aero Club, 5190 them ac plane that seemed to be in difficulties. Suddenly it turned mid-air. These events he took on May 27. That evening is the uproarious welcome. This was lightly enough. Surely a man hose first, and we saw & sheet who so often faced death at close Sopwith works at Ham thate was a concert, to which Mr. and Mrs. of fame come from it. I rode arters and escaped might be Hawker went straight on to the station for
The next day lieve that he possessed & charmed Hawker and Grieve received the our ambulance and some spare appliances, while the engine was driven towards the scene of the craab, a man having been dropped to notify the station through
over and over and came
street telephone.
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life, that he was immune from the Air Force Ceass from the King YOUR MONEY and JEWELLERY penalties of high daring. He bad at Buckingham Palace, and were amazing escape when motor entertained at a public lanebeca. 10g last year at Brooklands. On at which, in the absence of Lord occasion he was testing a car Northelife, Mr. Thomas Marlowe of 400 horsepower. He swerved, presided. But the Royal interest The machine had fallen in & travelling at a great pace, off the in the flight bad not ended in an 20-acre field at the rear of the rack and sbattered with the car interview at Buckingham Palace Council school at Burnt flak, and some iron fencing. The car was and the presentation of medals. was found by my men in flames.recked but Hawker alighted and The King sent a telegram to Mrs. as were also the grass and the posed for a photographer.
Hawker: The King rejoices bedge. Mr. Hawker was sing
with you and the nation on the on his side about 200ft. from the
But none of these adventures happy rescue of your gallant aeroplane. The first examination compares with those that befell husband. He trusts that he may showed that he was quite dead. him when he was competing for be long spared to you." Queen One Icot had been cut off. both the Daily Mail prize of £10,000 Alexandra added her congratula- lees were broken, and the face for a flight across the Atlantic tions, and messages poured ic was lacerated; but there were no With Commander Mackenzie from all over the world. burns to be seen on the body.” Grieve, B... he set out from
The Hawker went back to Mr. Adams added that he knew Newfoundland on the afternoon Lying, to flying and motoring. Hawker very well, and at once of May 18, 1919. It was a quarter His glittering car was a familiar recognized bim without any to 6. Greenwich time. The sight in London, and he was to difficulty.
weather at Mount Pearl, where be seen at every aerodrome. He Another eye-witness of the the competing machines were was amasingly tough. Hla had accident was Major D. R. Verey, gathered, was described as per flown at 25,000 ft, without the use D. F. C, of Edgware, who stated ect. For 10 minutes theof oxygen. On the occasion when that the aeroplane was dying signal station kept the departing he did that, he returned to earth very high and coming from airmen in view. Edgware towards Hendon when dropped the
Hawker by tipping his machine into a wheels from his nose dive and coming down like it began to dive, gathering speed undercarriage, to reduce weight, a rocket-stick. He was to havel very quickly. When the aero-shortly after he got away, and competed in the Aerial Derby plane had dropped from about so had to risk a dangerous land- next Saturday. But it is impossible 7,000 ft. to about 2,000 ft. it starteding on this side of the Atlantic. completely to catalogue all the ex- to spin, and it continued to fall.
Thousands of spectators saw ploits of a life crammed with until it was hidden from view by the aeroplane makt for the adventure and deeds of daring. |trees. Major Verey heard it strike
sea, and then mystery des- Of Hawker the man, a friend the ground with a sound which ended on Grieve and Hawker once wrote: stardily built
M. Maxime Pathe, of Pathe stantly seeking to improve the
is be described as resembling that They disappeared. One rumour man of medium height, there is Freres, Paris, YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM. of shell failing in the distance. succeeded another. Saries were nothing of the dashingly heroic hai
in Shang-companies in various parts of the with plans for travell world. He is one of thres sons, The machine," he said. was passed round of the finding of the shout Harry Hawker. He is the in the country for two of whom are in the firm. M. JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the engine, and the grass around it Destroyers went out to search for cheery, genial appearance, a blunt expand their present business in Rreater future for the moving. completely destroyed except the wreckage of the Sopwith machine.ost modest of mortals, saveral months to improve and Pathe believes that there is a
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THE OPERATIC FILM. M. Maxime Pathe travels con-
Bugs, Flies and all other insect Pests in summer days; and (49) hut an old man living in a house them. But all the time there was the eyepliable and dextrous.quent to the invention of the phonograph, but begond that he
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also burned. "Hawker's body it, and found nothing. found some distance from for the safety of the the seroplane. It is very likely faded and died.
China. M. Pathe belongs to one picture that has yet been dream- Hope and affable manner, the last per-
Hawkers of the biggest companies in the ed of. He thinks that the next airmes son to consider in he fell from the inashine, at der har swallowed ker's hands, however, that catch in Pri
It was accepted universe is himself. It is Haw-world, one which came into being form will be that of the operatic
film. few years SubE0-
with
accompanying by said he thought he saw
the face of the blackest fears, to shapely fingers denotes the born has now reached out to every A lightly different description believe that Hawker would never artist. The muscles of the fore- country. The single country in of the accident states that they again. She was his wife. The arm and wrist are like whipped which they do not operate is machine, after striking the
And Hawker's nervous Japan. M. Pathe said, which ex- question of the fate of the airmen steel. ground. rose again, and thes
was raised in the House of Com-temperament is Enely attuned as ception is due to the Japanese
GENERAL NEWS.
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SIXTEEN TIMES MAYOR. AH. W. J. Hughes, J. P. 16
struck a second time, throwing mons; bitter speeches were made the chords of a harp. He is at failing for imitation and copying. the pilot clear, and turning turtle on the dearth of official interest once manfully, confident, and In France alone, three big Fathe times Mayor of Sandwich and tor Mr. Hawker was still breathing in the race and the provision of bashful as a shy schoolgirl.
companies possess a capital of 45 years a member of the council, when first examined. but died a Assistance for the contestants.
$60,000,000, not "His manipulation of the power-
counting the has died aged 15 years. few minutes later.
While the public settled down to ful but graceful 'Salamander smaller subsidiary companies in
ROYAL SILVER WEDDING. AERONAUTICAL CORRESPONDENT, the gloomy conviction that the battleplane was a thing of joy to which they have an interest.
The silver wedding celebration Hawker was the most romantic last vestige of the possibility of watch. He took the new machine America is, at present, the largest of King Haakon and Queer Mand figure in our aviation, writes the rescue had gone, Mrs. Hawker up into the air with all the 80-field and the best-paying.
of Norway took place At Timra. He was a pilot of incom-never wavered in her faith. ner suggestive of a first-class WHAT THE CHINESE WANT. Christiania on July 22nd. King parable skill and great courage
China, to M. Pathe's mind. is Haakon On May 25 the Daily Mail horseman putting a thoroughbred
was formerly Prince He stood at one time as the em-stated that it had been decided to plished with ease stunts which no says that there is quite a good Queen Alexandra, and Queen over a steep hedge. He accom- not very hopeful just now. He Charles of Denmark, nephew to bodiment of British fighi. He announce, while the issue was was an ardent and skilful motor still uncertain, that if, indeed, ordinary human being could business to be done in the larger Mand a daughter of King Edward ist. Speed was bis passion. the airmen were lost the amount
survive, or would ordinarily cities, but that the biggest busi- and Queen Alexandra. Two years ago London, and in-of the prize money would be:
dream of attempting." deed the whole of Britain, was handed to Mrs." Hawker for the During the war he was engaged ringing with the cry. "Hawker benefit of herself and her baby in testing machines for the Sop saved." He had fallen into the daughter, and to the next-of-kin with Company. Atlantic in attempting to fly from of Commander Grieve, in the Newfoundland to Great. Britain. proporticus in which it and had been picked up by a pass-understood the airmen bad
Was
ARMLET FOR WAR COP- RESPONDENTS.
ness will not be touched until
Chinese films, taken of the Chinese and suiting the Chinese tastes, are produced. This will take some time and will involva special study.
JUDGE'S. ATTACK ON OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM. Severe criticism of present-day education was passed by Judge Mulligan, K. C., at Norwich Conaty Court. A document re- The Fathe Company has suf-lating to rates was pat in daring ing steamer. It is a different agreed to share
fered a good deal from the world the hearing of a case, and the it betweeg A new Army Order issued by war. They had heavy interests judge remarked that a great and a melancholy story that has them. A further sum of £10,000 the War Office notifies that the Russia and also in Germany, part to be recounted to-day. Mon and was offered for a flight across the following armiet has been approv-which
of the rate (324. 2d. women will deplore the death of Atlantic. This was won by Sired for war correspondents with About a half interest of the com-what
represent total losses. in the £) was expended on Harry Hawker as sincerely as John Alcock and Sir Whitten troops in the field:-Black and pany is in phonographs and that called, education." This miscalled
Was called, they rejoiced in his rescue from Browne. Not long afterwards the white alternate vertical stripes, has suffered along with the sea in May, 1919.
former crashed when flying in two inches wide, with the word pictures.
the education," he added, "hasproduc- Harry George Hawker was en France and was killed.
"Press" in three-quarter inch red
ed throughout this country a young Australian, of Cornish descent. On May 26 Mr. Hawker's letters. Armlets will be worn onated by Eimle Pathe and Charlestion to their parents—a genera, The Patbe Company was origin-generation far inferior in educa He was born in 1881, and took a hopes were justifled. The papers both arme. Servants to war Fathe who leading part in motor racing of that date contained a message correspondents will wear similar father and brother of M. Maxime cannot even read the printed onth respectively tionthatcan neitherread norwrite; before he became interested in from Lloyd's which ran" May armless, but without the word Fathe. These two men were in- on the book. That is what is called aeronautice. It was at Brook-25. No. 1 Lloyd's signal station at "Press"
I veptors, and when they succended education now."
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