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Flight, October 5, 1916. Firat Aero Weekly in the World. Founder and Editor : STANLEY SPOONER. A Journal devot«d to tha Intereata, Practioe and Prograaa ot Aerial Locomotion and Transport. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. No. 406. (No. 40. Vol. VH1.)] OCTOBER 5, 1916. 1«.-.k-, i»ric* la. I Pwl Fra, lift. Flight* But th« qu.siinn most distinctlj Bxises now, whether KMtorMOgU,:^ ST. MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON. W.C. «* •"'' ."Stifled 111 Continuing to fight G.-lTii.inv with Telegram.: Truditui, Weatrand, hernia*. Telephone: Gerrard i8»8 the gloVeS 00 ? I'.VtTV Week, .Hill SUIUCtill.es |il>>|. „•„.*„. Annu*1 s"b*f?ptK>n ?f"\Po" fn* , than once in the week, otu stores an- raided by hostile United Kingdom .. ot. 6J. Abroad tit. ad. , . , , , < > CONTENTS aircraft, from which lxunbs art' dropjH-d <>n open and Editorial Comment : • f*'.« defended places alike, Idlltng and wounding cmhua Air Raids and Reprisal. 847 ;UI<1 among them a high pi'O'M lit lull til Women alii Preparing tor Afiertl^ War .. .. .. .. 8«8 duldn,n_ We are llot ' squealing '' about it. Tin The British Air Services , »V> „ • , t .1 The Roil of Honour • .. .. S53 German contention is that as a consequence of th, Suggests! Signalling Device for Inter-communication between Aeroplane. Sta aerial threat a large llUUtbet of tl'oops are kept in Answers to Corr«pond.nu »» England %nd munitions which would otherwise be Royal Aero Club. Official Notices 856 j - , , 1 , . , ri 1 "x " Aircraft Raids 856 used in France have to Iw kept here. I hey claim Armchair Reflections. By the •• Dreamer " 857 also that t lie til ijet, t of t lie 1 aids Is t lie dest Miction of Airisms from the Four Wind. .. .. 858 munjtjon factories and stole-, all<l tile I t.Hllh.tl .lllietlt The Aeroplane of To-morrow. BY Louis de Banllac Boo , . . „, „ .. .. , . Captured Allied Aircraft by the German*.. 86, of foltlhcd places. \\ ell, SUp|KrSltlg We alloU .,11 t 1,1 personals s«3 and concede that tliev are rarrving out a legitimate Aircraft work at the Front, official information 863 enterprise of war. It mav be remarked, inter alia, T^n^Re^rstv,rw :: :: :: :: :: :: :: % that if their, ,,i, ,!,,,.,,„ to destroy«»««ofmiKtarj importance, it would help them to achieve that object - •' ' wr";i ** " ~ " with greater certainty if they would fiv low enough EDITORIAL COMMENT. to nKlk<' sul*' thai thai bombs reach the teal ta f ^ and do not fall harmlessly—from the military point ol ^•"(^rfTAS not the time now conic when we view, that is in residential thoroughfares. True, R^^ajB should embark upon a severe policy of they would make better targets lot our gun , and ottl reprisal in answer to the continued aeroplanes would doubtless prefer to see them flying ft WrmJ* German air raids on this country? lower than they do. We af€ assured, however, by \l'w *'ntil now we 'mve n'*ram(,<i *rom the (rerman Press that the o|.je< t of the raiders is not JL i JL advocacy of raids in reprisal, because to get back safely, but to do the maximum amount tt;!\f^A we have endeavoured to maintain a of military damage. If they would come down to a feeling that even if we are hghting an enemy who thousand feet, say, they would make much better has no elementary idea of the decencies of civilised practice m their bomb-dropping, They would return war, there is no need for us to descend to the Fatherland in even smauei proportion than Air Raids to his level. In our little wars of the" past they do now, but, according to their own story, that Reprisals. we have been accustomed to the muti- does not matter. lation of our wounded and the murder of So far as producing any effect on the war is con- those of our people unfortunate enough to fall into the cerned, the raids leave the nation cold. They hands of a savage enemy. We have bargained with irritate, but nothing more. We don't like them—it the fact that civilians, men, women and children, would be folly to pretend we do—and would gladly set- would pay the last penalty if taken. But we have them cease for the sake 01 the poor women and little always refrained—and properly refrained—from re- children who die and are mutilated in them. Wi prisals in kind, recognising that we were fighting are forced to the opinion that that* is one way, and savage enemies whose code of war recognised no nice only one way, to bring about their cessation. That distinctions. They had generally never heard of is by counter-raids on enemy towns. Such raids Geneva and Hague Conventions, and understood may quite justifiably be described as defensive, and nothing of the niceties of international law and the the defence of these shores is as much a legitimate amenities of civilised war—if, indeed, any war can be enterprise of war as the object sought to be attained called civilised. by the enemy and which we have tentatively cow
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