Paris, Aug. 3.
The Polish airmen, Major Tdzikowski and Major Kubala, started to-day on a flight to New York. They will probably fly vid Rochefort and the Azores.
"Their machine is equipped with! two small collapsible rubber boats. They have no wireless but carry a. danger rocket-pistol and a bundle of small Polish flags, which will bq dropped out at intervals to show with progress and the course fol-Towed.—Reuter, YValentia, Spain, Aug. 4.
The wireless station here to-day received a signal from a British steamer that she had sighted diplane—presumably the one on which the two Polish airmen, Major Tdzikowski and Major Kubala, are attempting to fly to New York, vid the Azores—roughly 100 miles north-east of the Azores at 2.40 this morning. The steamer added that, apparently, all was well—Reuter.
New York, Aug. 4 The absence of news of the Polish airmen, Major Udzikowski and M: jor Kubala, is causing anxiety. It Seems definitely established that they abandoned their trans-Atlantic attempt and turned back at dawn since when their machine sassily have been able to cover the.800 miles to Europe, The plane, too, ought to have been sighted by at Toast one of the twelve Tiners which are on the course they are believed to be followints—
Reuter.
Aug. 4
At nine o'clock this evening (local time) there was still no news of the Polish airmen, Majors Idzikow-_ ski and Kubala—Reuter.
Warsaw, Aug. 5.
'A message from Hamburg reports that the Polish airmen, Major Idzikowski and Major Kubala, were] forced down in mid-Atlantic at 4.45 p.m, on August 4 and that their biplane was destroyed.
The message adds that the airmen were rescued by the German steamer Samos.
Prom further details now available of the rescue of the Polish airmen it appears that they came down 60) miles off Cape Finisterre, not in Reuter's Correspondent at Lisbon reports that they were forced down by a fault of the petrol feed-pipe, and struck the sea with considerable force, smashing the wings. - They were' picked up by the steamer] Samos, which took the plane in tow! to Lexioes, near Oporto.
One of the airman was injured in the arm by a fall while aboard the] Samos. He is now in hospital, but both expect to leave for Paris tomorrow.
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