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QFOCHT OCTOBER 5, 1916. ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE U.K. OFFICIAL NOTICES TO MEMBERS. SPECIAL COMMITTEE MEETING. A SPECIAL MASTING <>i the Committee me held on Monday, the -Tidinst., wbenthere were present Prof. A. K.Huntington, in tii. '),,,!) M,, Griffith Brewer, Mr. Ernest C. Bucknall, Flight Btadfl < , I Pollock, K.N"., and the Assistant Secretary. Election of Member*.- The following New Members were elected:— Second Licit. Henry Dansey Addis (8th Seaforth High- landere). Plight Siih-I.Knt. Sydney Harold Lionel Douglas- Crompton, R.N. Charles George LSM. Michel Nentsky. Lewis Pennington. • New Club Premises. The negotiations for the New Club Premises have now been I imipl. I I in- House selected by tin- Committee is No. 3, CLIFFORD STREET, New Bond Street, W„ which is centr.illv situated and within three minutes' walk of the present premises. hoped that the House will be opened to Members In toil ihi end of the year. THE FLYING SERVICES FUND administered by THE ROYAL AERO CLUB. THE Flying Services Fund has been instituted by the Royal Aero Club for the benefit of officers and men of the Royal Naval Air Sendee and the Royal Flying Corps who are incapacitated on active service, and for the widows and dependants of those who are killed. The Fund is intended for the benefit of all ranks, but especially for petty officers, non-commissioned officers, and men. Forms of application for assistance can be obtained from the Royal Aero Club, 166, Piccadilly, London, W. Subscriptions. £ s. d. Total subscriptions received to Sept. 27th, 1916 10,851 16 3 Collected at the Westland Aircraft Works, Yeovil (Fiftieth contribution) .. .. o 11 10 Miss Gertrude Pitt . . .. .. .. I I o Received from the Publishers of Aerial Russia.. 026 Total, October 3rd, 1916 .. .. 10,853 11 j 166, Piccadilly, W. B. STEVENSON, Assistant Secretary. THE "X" AIRCRAFT RAIDS. IN view of the decision of tin-Government not to allow details of places visited by enemy aircraft to be published, we are, M before, giving to en h one an index number. Eventually, when details are available, we shall give the respective in formation Badd tiltm index numbers, which will facilitate easy reference to each partii ular raid. • X 50 " Raid, September 25th-26th. German Version. Berlin, September 26th. " ON the night of September j;th -20th .1 section of our naval airships lavishly bombarded" with explosive and in- • •ndiary bombs, with visible good results, the British naval port of I'oitMiiouth, the ' reinforced ' places at the mouth of the Ttiamai, and industrial and railway installations of military importance in Central England, including York, Leads, Lincoln and Derby. In spite of strong enemy attacks, out airships returnc.I undamaged." » X 81 »' Raid, October lst-2nd. 1111- following commnniquis have been issued bv the Field-Marshal Commaading-in-Chief the Hume Forces October 1st, 11.45 p.m. "A number of hostile airships crossed the Bast Coast between o p.m. and midnight. A few bombs have been dropped near the coast, but no damage lias yet been reported. Iht raid 1^ still in progress, and some airships are in the vicinity of London, where some guns have been in action. An airship is just reported to have been brought down in flames North of London." October 2nd. 10.30 a.m. • DM hostile airships crossed the East Coast last night between o o'clock and midnight. <i> <$> New Regulations Against Souvenir Hunters. Bv (hilei in Council the following new regulation has been made under the Defence of the Realm Act:— " If any person, having found any bomb or projectile, or am tra^nietil theveof, or any document, map, or other article Whatsoever winch he has reasonable grounds for believing or suspecting to have been discharged, dropped, or lost from, or to have been earned in or to have formed part of any aircraft or vessel of the enemy, or to have formed part of the equip ment or personal effects of any member of the crew of such aircraft or vessel, without law iul authority or excuse neglects forthwith, after rinding the same, or, in the case of any such " One airship approached the North of London about to p.m., but was driven off by gunfire and pursued by aero planes. She attempted to return from the north-west, but was attacked by guns and aeroplanes and brought to earth in flames in the neighbourhood of Potters Bar shortly before midnight. " A second airship attempted to attack London from the north-east, but was driven off about 1 a.m. A number of bombs were dropped, but no reports of casualties or damage have yet been received. " The remaining airships wandered aimlessly over the Eastern Counties and Lincolnshire. Bombs were dropped promiscuously, but most of them appear to have dropped in the open country without doing any damage. " The airship destroyed was of the latest type." 3.30 p.m. " PoMce reports show that the total casualties as a result of last night's raid were one man killed and one wo man injured. " The material damage was insignificant, although the raiders covered a wide area and dropped a great number of bombs. " Four houses were seriously damaged, some glasshouses were demolished, and a number of windows were broken." German Version. Berlin, October 2nd. " During the night of October 2nd several naval airships successfully dropped bombs on London and military works on the Humber. Despite the heavy firing by anti-aircraft guns, all the airships returned except one, which was shot and set on fire by anti-aircraft guns and fell to earth near London." <s> <$> article which was found before October 3rd, 1916, as soon as may be after that date, to communicate the fact to a military post or to a police-constable in the neighbourhood, or on being so required, neglects to send or deliver the same to the com petent naval or military authority or some person authorised bv him for the purpose, he shall be gudty of an offence against these regulations. " Where any such article is found at the place where the aircraft in question or the wreck thereof descended, no person shall, without lawful excuse, displace, remove, or otherwise interfere with such article, and, if any person does so, he shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations."
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