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ght, December 24, 1915 First Aero Weekly in the World. Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER. A Joura&l (UvGted to tK« InUreaU, Pr»ctie«, a>nd Progreii of Atrial Loeomotloa M4 TranaporV OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. No. 865. (No. 52, Vol. VII.)] DECEMBER 24, 1915- i7-srt:s£. F-a] rp^«:°aV8A- Fligtat. Editorial Officii 44, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON, W.C. Telegrams: Tmditur, Westrand, London. Telephone: Gerrard i8a8. t Annual Subscription Rates Post Free. United Kingdom ... 151. ad. Abroad aot. ad CONTENTS rAGE 999 , 1003 . 1003 . J005 . 1011 . JOI3 1014 . 1015 ,. 1016 ,. IOI7 . 1018 ,. 1018 .. 1019 Editorial Comment: " Always Too Late " Aircraft Work at the Front. Official Information The British Flying Services The Captured Albatros Fighting Biplane "Cotton." By the " Dreamer " Lighter Than Air Eddies. By"^Eolus" From the British Flying Grounds Armchair Reflections. By the " Dreamer " ... Royal Aero Club Official Notices New Lighting Regulations Aircraft and the War Models EDITORIAL COMMEHT. On Monday, in the House of: Commons "Always the Minister of Munitions had some very Too Late!" «j. truths t0 tell, and charactenstrcally he told them with little mincing of words, AS ^ the masterly speech made by Mr. Lloyd u g grounds for the greatest ^^^f ° S0J ugly- its allies, although there wee undoubte y ^ looking flies in the ."^^S desired effect of of the state of affairs will have in bringing the offenders ag«»^£^° seen. The to a sane state of mind rem*ins t ade Union indictment against the ghastly pestence ^ they methods, and the natural res^natron of the employers, are which those methods bring tc.certain o ^^ ^ was so strong that, if"0*1"^ such methods, when brought it home to the world tnaJ t moment, are national calamity has arisen, as at IF the who,e a menance not only to f.B;£iS Minister's words of world's well-being, surely the Munition unUy ^ large warning will open the eyes ot me ^ doak of their That any body of men, either w of decency in their unions or the reverse, wlth °"! ^triotism, should avail organism, let alone a sense•oip such times as themselves of some hard and fast rule these, to curtail the possible output of the necessary material to bring the present horrible conflict to a more speedy and victorious conclusion, is beyond the power of belief in ordinary man. Especially when those rules have been the result of power obtained by the most con temptible political prostitution that has been seen since the foundation of the British Parliament, and obtained in times of Peace, when a general feeling of tolerance has made it possible for such unholy compacts to be made. Yet the fact remains that, by reason of some outrageous regulation, whereby non-unionists and unskilled men and women are debarred from working side by side with those who say they will not be coerced, and in the same breath insist upon the right to coerce non-unionists into their own way of think ing, the whole country's future may be placed in serious jeopardy. We wonder what these gentry would think were it possible for them to look into a picture which would give them as taskmasters those murderous Huns, whom at the present moment they, as British subjects, are, by their short-sighted action, helping to encourage to further efforts, if not actually assisting them, to ultimately win the War. They would probably be the first to cower down and say, " Please it wasn't me, sir." Fortunately for the world, these degenerates are in the vast minority, and therefore it is but a matter of time for their obstinacy to be combatted. But the pity of it, that such com batting should be necessary with such a cause to assist as the crushing of the mad venomous brute which is running amuck in the European quarter of the glol)e. I^et us hope the small section of obstructionists will be sub merged before it is too late once more. So many '• might have beens " have gone by the board in the past, since Germany first violated Belgium, in every case by reason of our being " too late," that there should be no more latitude given to those who still insist upon their traitor ous methods. Their loyal fellow workmen should, and probably will ere long, arise in their wrath and inflict, figuratively speaking, annihilation upon them, so that the necessary munitions demanded by the legions fighting in the trenches may reach them before that is " too late." It was a very emphatic tale in this connection that Mr. Lloyd George hammered in on Monday, and it is urgent that an end of such a story should be made without delay. It is a cause for gratification that outside the immoral influence which certain of the Unions of allied trades have forced upon the Aeronautical Industry, all those who were in the Industry at the commence ment of the war, and all those firms who have since joined its ranks, have succeeded in putting forward such B k
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