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[/DGHT as ths committee may decide to permit, and even its decisions are to be subject to any further suppression the Government may think fit to exercise through the medium of the Press Bureau. Theiefore neither I nor any other witness before the committee could be certain that at any time evidence regarded as vital to corroborate charges might not be suppressed " in the interests of the pubjic." 1 think I have shown grounds which at least the public will ap- ® ® MAY 25, i9I6. preciate why, alike in its constitution, terms of reference, and method of procedure (as revealed at to-day's sitting), this committee must be entirely reconstituted and enlarged, if its findings are to carry the confidence of the Service or the respect of the country. Yours faith'ully, N. PE.MDEKTON BILLING. P.S.—Owing to the urgency of tie matter, I an: sendin" iliis correspondence to the Press. FERS ® ® UNDER the above heading will be published weekly particulars of a personal character relating to those who have fallen or have been wounded in the country's service, announcements of marriages and other items concerning members of the Flying Services and others well known m the world of aviation. We shall be pleased to receive for publication properly authenticated particulars suitable for this column. Casualties. Flight Sub-Lieutenant FRANK BESSON, R.X., has been reported missing since December 2olh, 1915. News has now been received from his observer that he was drowned on (hat day. He was 20 years of age, and entered the Air Service on December 21st, 1914; was trained at the C.F.S.; had seen active service in Dunkirk and the Dardanelles. It was in the latter vicinity that he lost his 1 fe. He was educated at Westminster, where he was a sergeant in. the O.T C. In 1914 he won the Public Schools mile race al Stamford Bridge. The deceased had taken a keen interest in aviation since the age of 12, and exhibited a model aeroplane in the Aero Exhibition of 1909. Captain ARNOLD RB-BD TIILIE, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and K.F.C., whose death is notified, was the second son of Mr. William J. Tillie, of Londonderry. Educated at Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, and Uppingham, he obtained his cummission in the Cameronians in the second month of the war. He was app linted Flying Officer in the Military Wing of the Royal Flying Corps after a year's seivice with his Battalion, and was promoted to the position of Flight-Commander, with the rank of Captain, in March last. His elder brother—Captain and Adjutant W. K. Tillie, Royal West Kent Regiment-was awarded the Military Cio;-s for conspicuous gallantry near Hulluch on September 25th, 1915 ; and his younger brother -Second Lieutenant Talbot L. Tillie, Came ronians-was wounded ,last year whilst serving on the Gallipoli I'eninsu'a. His cous;n—Lieutenant C. G. Tillie, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers—died of wounds received at the Dardanelles in August last. JOURNALISTIC OF late.- years a somewhat more balanced sense of decency has pre vailed in American editorial circles in regard to the "lifting" of original matter—illustrations or otherwise—from foreign contem poraries without the slightest acknowledgment. The contrary custom is more or less now coatinsd to outsiders in the world o( American journalism, and so far as ordinary photographs of general intere-t are concerned we do not attach much importance to this method of utilising "exchanges" A strong protest, however, is needed when original technical drawings—often entailing weeks of work and earelui research and judgment—and letterpress areannsxed wholesale without giving credit to the source of origin. In this connection we hive no alternative but to take exception to the positively unscrupulous way in which a Mr. Lee Wallace handle? the contents of " FI.IGH r'' for the purpose of filling the pages of our W ® The Lord Mayer's Views. THAT the Lord Mayor of London (Colonel Sir Charles Wake field) is far-seeing is so well known, that the following opinions as to the wonderful future for aviation and the enormous strides which the industry will make in the course of the next few years, expressed in the course of an interview with a representative of The Daily Telegraph, will hardly come as a surprise to " FLIGHT'' readers. "The aeroplane," said Sir Charles, "although capable of travel ing futer than any bird, animal, fish, or mechanically-propelled vehicle, has not yet attained its full possible speed. Whilst 140 to 150 miles per hour is now achieved, the near future will prove that 200 miles per hour or more will not be the maximum speed," The City business man, Sir Charles confidently asserted, living fifty to too miles away from bis office, dropping into his own private aeroplane, or calling an aero taxi, would be at his country residence in less time than was now occupied in reaching the railway terminus from which at present he took train for home. He fully expected that within a couple of years he would be able to reach his estate at Hythe, seventy miles from London, in half an hour by aeroplane. "The principal cities of Europe will be brought very near to London," added the Lord Mayor. " One will fly over to Paris on business in the morning and be back in time for dinner, using the Lieutenant ORMOND GEORGE HAKE, R.F.C., who wis killed while flying, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Hake, of llailty School, Bournemouth. Wounded. Second Lieutenant ROBERT MUNDY CHAWORTH-MUSTERS, Leicestershire Regiment and R.F.C., whose name appeared among the wounded in the official list recently, was born in 189"). lib great-great grandfather, John Musters, of Colwick, minted the "Mary Chaworth" of Byron's poetry, thus bringing 10 the Muster's fami:y the name and arms of Chaworth and the Anneslcy estate. His grandmother was a niece of Lord Sherbrooke, the first " match-tax " Chancellor of the Exchequer, and he is rdso a grandnephew of the Dowager Lady Sempill and a cousin of the present Countess of Elgin. Married and to be Married. The engagement is announced of Lieutenant CRATHOKNI EDWARD CHARLTON ANNE, R.F.C., youngest son of Major Anne, of Burghwallis Hall, Yorkshire, and ANNIE CHARLOTTE ELLEN, only daughter of the late Mr. JOHN ALEXANDER MILLER ami the late Mrs. MILLER, of Edinburgh. The engagement is announced of Sub-Lieutenant NORMAN SLADDEN, R.N.V.R., attached R.N.A.S., and Miss GABKIKLLE VALLINGS, cousin and adopted daughter of Mrs. M. St. Leg-.! Harrison (Lucas Maltt), of The Orchard, Eversley, Hants. ® « "ANNEXATION." American contemporary Aircraft. This literary well put in the word yourself—not only annexes our technical drawings whole sale, but positively goes so far as to attach his own signature to them ! We think audacity can hardly surpass this. We have protested directly time after time but without effect, and therefore this method of easing our feelings and bringing the facts to the notice of the public is our only remaining remedy. In a somewhat lesser degree we have the grievar.ee against another American contemporary, Aerial Age, but at least they content themselves with reproducing our pag s of drawings just as they appear in the pages of " FLIGHT," merely omitting the courtesy of acknowledgment. The proce:ding may be highly complimentary to " F'LIGHT," but we would prefer our contemporaries to follow more orthodox and accepted forms of recognising the value of our work. ® ® aeroplane ; or if not in too g eat a hurry, or with a party, the rigid airship may be employed. Exp ess trains will be used only by those to whom time is of little value. New York will be only twenty- four hours away, and machines will leave England for the United States regularly—daily. "Again," said the Lord Mayor, "postal facilities will be greatly improved ; le.ters posted in London before twelve o'clock mid-day win be delivered in Glasgow or in Paris the same night, and the parcel post carried by air will open up a great postal shopping industry. At the present1 time aeroplanes with a load of over four tons and carrying twelve or thirteen men hive attained a height of over ia,orjo ft. in a very short time, and are travelling at a speed of 80 miles per hour or more. These figures will be so greatly improved upon that men on active service will be transported in sucn quick time to any reasonable given place as to have an immense bearing on mil.tary requirements, and the development of the Air Service may be so great as to render war practically impossible, an achievement greatly to be desired." That the supremacy of the air would be secured eventually by the British, in the opinion of Sir Charles, followed as a matter of course) and he was quite certain that the aeroplane industry would assume much greater p-oportions than now obtained even in th: motor trade. 442
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