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Flight, April 30, 1915. ^r? Firat Aero Weekly in the World. Founder and Editor : STANLEY SPOONER. A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. No. 331. (No. 18, Vol. VII.)] APRIL 30, 1915. Flight. Editorial Office; 44. ST. MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON, W.C. Telegrams: Truditur, Westrand, London. Telephone: Gerrard 1828. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom ... 151. od. Abroad »oi. od. CONTENTS. Editorial Comment: The Victims of German Rage Handicapping the German Airfleet Aircraft Work at the Front. Official Information The British Air Services The Maximilian Schmitt Monoplane Royal Aero Club. Official Notices From the British Flying Grounds Flying at Hendon Eddies. By"^Eolus" The Hasler Revolution, Circumference and Cutting Speeds Indicator The Screw Propeller. By F. W. Lanchester, M.Inst.C.E Model Clubs Diary and Reports Aircraft and the War Models. Edited by V. E. Johnson, M.A PACK • *93 • »94 . 296 • 297 . 298 • 299 . 300 • 301 . 3°2 • 304 • 3<>5 . 306 • 3°7 • 3°9 With regard to photographs and descriptions of new British machines and those of our Allies, and other information which may be of help to our enemies, it should be noted that the Editor of FLIGHT, in the National interest, submits all matter 0/ this character to the Official Press Censor before publication. Hence our readers will appreciate that many new departures in con struction or advances in detail work are necessarily held bach for the present rather than the smallest risk should be run of helping those who are so strenuously fighting the Allies for the enforcement of their " Kultured" militarism.—ED. &BHTOIUA1L COMMENT. With such a record for really high-class The Victims «Kultur " which the present war has in German Rage tne Past enarjled the Germans to establish, it would be impossible to imagine anything too vile or savage by which they would not be willing to lurther besmirch their name for future generations to marvel at. That their latest abominations in the form of poisonous gases directed against their honourable foes should have been resorted to, is therefore hardly to be wondered at. Its momentary effect gave promise, not unnaturally, of bringing about a very serious setback for the Allies. But its powers for lasting evil were evidently considerably overrated, judging by the reaction which has followed the initial temporary success attained by the fRetUtered at the G.P.O.T ["Weekly, Price 8d. L a»» Newspaper. J L Poet yree, Sid- practise of such diabolical methods, whilst it has further stiffened the backs of the whole nation, if such were possible, in its determination to exact a quid pro quo when the time arrives. This was not the only episode of " fright- fulness" of last week and it was only in keeping with the Huns' traditions that they should blatantly announce the shameful treatment which they had determined to inflict upon a selected number of their British prisoners by way of what they are pleased to term reprisals for the action of our Government in separating the captured crew of " U 8" from other German prisoners of war. And very rightly has this been done, is probably the verdict of most people who have followed in detail what these pirates of the sea have been guilty of. At the time of the Scarborough raids and the airship bomb- droppers' attack on unfortified places, we advocated the following of the Russian lead in treating the participants in these and similar iniquitous violations of the laws of humanity, as criminals rather than honourable foes fighting our forces. Let them, we maintained, when secured, justify their actions before a British Court of Justice, than which no fairer test of innocence or guilt could be devised. And so it came about later that the submarine pirate crew which had been relentlessly sinking vessels, crews, and passengers without warning, were duly put into safe keeping, apart from the other enemy prisoners, presently, it is to be hoped, to take their trial for murder on the high seas. But their treatment otherwise has not been different, we believe, to that meted out to the other prisoners of war. Therefore, if the Germans have no special accusation of crime of a similar character to bring agp.inst their prisoners of war, it is but another instance of their sheer brutality, embittered by the complete frustration of all their long-prepared plans, that they should throw into a felon's prison—and it is stated solitary confinement at that—a body of men, who are one and all the soul of honour, comprising such well - proved soldiers as, by way of example, Captain Robin Grey of the Royal Flying Corps. Rather should such men receive more considerate treatment. The selection of their victims has been cunningly made, so that the feelings of the Nation at home may be worked upon. But again the German savages have reckoned without their host. Without exception the attitude taken up in Parliament by all those who participated in last Tuesday's debate on the Prisoners in Germany, was highly dignified, and all ideas of reprisals on our part were scouted, as it was
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