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(/jjGHT SEPTEMBER 14, 1916. AIRISMS FROM THE FOUR WINDS. The Imperialist should have con- Philatelic Secretary, who, in accepting the gift of a special die proof of the stamp for the King's collection, writes : * His Majesty is very pleased with the design, and thinks it most appropriate." ^ BY means of similar philatelic issues by the Allies enormous sums have been collected in farthings and halfpennies in Russia, France, Italy and Belgium for the wounded or for the soldiers' widows and orphans. Moreover, many of these issues are already at a premium, so the acquisition of a set 01 two may presently prove to be quite a good investment. So hurry up, one and all, and add the nimble i>d. to the fund which is so magnificently helping to allay the sufferings r>f our men who are crushing the war spirit out of the Hun. A utres temps, autres masurs.—One time nothing was too good to say of the Roumanians by their would-be Allies, the Austro-Hungarian and Germanic nations. But now emerges for the first time the real opinions held of this Balkan people by their quondam friends. By way of a start the following from the Pester Lloyd, a well-known Budapest journal and a subsidised organ of the Hungarian Government, is mot so bad. It is owned by the Pester Lloyd Society, a Jewish financial body of little repute so far as national morals are concerned. In a leading article this paper, discussing Roumania, writes :— " Can this miserable and inferior State of perjurers and helots, of village tyrants and human beasts, which bears I he branded name of Roumania, be more successful than its powerful Allies ? We can ask with Alexander Petosi whether we who have fought with lions are to be devoured by vermin ? The history, the justice, the necessity that lie in the facts, can reply that a blow of the fist delivered at the right moment by our tried arm, will suffice to sweep back the thieving crew into the filth of their native depravity. " Practised and tested in the ways of a thief who steals from sleeping persons, the Roumanian Government has begun this war, the most evidently piratical of all wars, for the simple reason that they hoped to overrun a dead Hungary which had been exhausted by battle. We now inform Herr Bratiano that his infamous Press canaille has lied as impu_ "P.B.'s" new paper siderable vogue. NOT A BIT OF lT.-~(Zepp. relics are still wanted at the Morse Guards.) Though that relic you'd add to your store, •* Let your ownership cease ; Give it up ! Why, in season of war, Think of keeping the peace ? (" The Office Window," Daily Chronicle.) " HEIGHT 5 ft. 7 ins., very dark hair and grey eyes, of medium build, and a large hairy mole on his back." Such is the description—given by his parent at Old Street Police Court on Saturday -of Albert Henry Edwards, aged 16, of Bookham Road, who on August 23rd left home, and his mother is anxious to have news of him and his whereabouts, As his one ambition was to join up with the K.F.C., possibly someone in the Service has come across that large hairy mole, and will notify accordingly. A GOOD many readers of " FLIGHT " are also philatelists. or have sons or other relations who collect stamps. A chance to acquire a very charming addition to their present holding now offers itself, combined at the same time with helping an admirable war cause. Following the lead of the rest of the Allies, with the exception of Serbia and Roumania, Britain has now followed suit by issuing a special war-stamp through the agency of the National Philatelic War Funds Auction. This has been designed by British stamp collectors, and has been engraved and printed gratuitously by Messrs. Perkins. Bacon and Co., the printers of the first postage stamp ever issued, the historic " Penny Black " English stamp of 1840. These war stamps are being sold at id. each, or 6d. the set of six different colours, by the National Philatelic War Fund, 151, Strand, W.C. »The proceeds go to the British Red Cross and St. John of Jerusalem. THE stamps are a work of art in themselves, the design being emblematic of Britain taking up the sword of justice. They have received the approval of King George through his Mons. Passat and his hand-operated flapping wing model to which reference was made in "FLIGHT" some weeks j ago. Mons. Passati has for a number of years been experi menting quietly with wing-flapping machines, and has now succeeded in getting some quite promising results. In our photograph .he is seen at the handle of his latest hand-operated model. ; Crude as it is, Mons. Passat demonstrated to us recently that he can lift with this model a weight of 80 lbs. This weight, it is true, is only lifted momentarily and not sustained for any prolonged period, but in view of the primitive arrangement even this is not bad for efficiency. Assuming that a man can develop for a short period one-fifth of a horse power, this would give a lift, if driven by a petrol engine, of 400 lbs. per h.p., which is a somewhat startling figure. It would appear that the research authorities might not be ill-advised in granting Mons. Passat's method of imitating the flight of a bird a trial under more favourable conditions and with a mechanically improved model. 792
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