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According to an unofficial Central News dispatch received late last night Aviator Harry Hawker and his pilot, Commander Grieve, had been picked up in safety off the Irish coast late in the afternoon. This report had not been confirmed, but was the latest that had been received at the hour of going to press...
Another cable to the effect that Hawker's Sopwith aeroplane had been wrecked about 40 miles west of the River Shannon was received earlier, but has not been verified...
There was something Homeric in the venture of Pilot Hawker and Commander Grieve in their Sopwith machine. Flinging away their landing carriage and deliberately avoiding steamship lanes, they undertook a voyage, as perilous as any since the days of Columbus and Cabot. What a continuous flight of twenty hours must mean is clear to anyone who has spent with the hum of engines throbbing in his ears, even three hours in the air. Our wonder increases when we consider that this longest flight yet attempted was made in a plane with only one engine, little chance of floating if forced...
...Newdigate Prize is of twenty-one guineas in value and was founded in 1806 by Sir Roger Newdigate. Competition for the prize is open each year to the undergraduates of Oxford University. Among the winners of the prize in past years have been Matthew Arnold, Robert Stephen Hawker and John Addington Symonds...