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Dr. Macnamara : I think we had better have the examina tion of the accounts first, and then I will put the other points to the First Lord. Salvage Money for Zepp. Wreckers. COLONEL LOCKWOOD asked the hon. member for Rugby, as the Parliamentary Representative of the Air Board, if, in view of officers of flying corps being forbidden to accept public money for services rendered in the air, the Government •will consider the question of allowing salvage money for bringing down airships, in the same way as salvage money is now awarded for sinking ships of the enemy at sea T Major Baird (representing the Air Board) : I may refer my right hon. and gallant friend to the reply given by the Prime Minister to a similar question on the 8th instant. The proposal contained in his question involves considera tions of military discipline and administration, and it is receiving the careful attention of the Departments concerned. I am afraid that I cannot say more at present ? Aeroplane Prices. MR. JOYNSON-HICKS asked the hon. member for Rugby, as the Parliamentary representative of the Air Board, whether he can give any figures showing the prices paid by the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service respectively for the same aeroplane ? Major Baird : I regret that I cannot supply figures of the kind referred to. Variations of price for the same machine may well rise, among other causes, from the differences in the number of machines ordered and in the degree of urgency with which they are required. I can assure my hon. friend that this is a matter in which all possible measures arc taken to secure co-operation between the two Services. Air Raid Insurance. MR. FELL asked the President of the Board of Trade (i) if he can state the percentage of the amount of damage by air or sea raid of premises which have been insured com pared with the premises damaged but not insured ; and if a report on the working of the aircraft insurance scheme of the Government will be presented shortly ; and (2) if the Government has a considerable sum of money in hand on account of the Government aircraft insurance scheme; and if it is proposed to reduce the rates for insurance in conse quence in the near future ? Mr. Pretyman : It is not possible to estimate what percen tage of the property damaged by hostile aircraft or bombard ment was insured and what percentage was not insured, and I do not think the time has yet come for publishing the accounts of the Government aircraft insurance scheme. The question whether any alteration should be made in the rate of premium charged is under consideration. Mr. Fell : Is it not possible to say whether the larger part of the premises destroyed or injured by these raids are insured or not ? Mr. Pretyman : We have the particulars of the insured premises which are injured, but not necessarily all the particulars of the non-insured premises. Promotion in the Royal Flying Corps. MR. JOYNSON-HICKS, on November 23rd, asked the hon. member for Rugby, as the Parliamentary Representative of the Air Board, whether he is aware that officers joining the Royal Flying Corps lose their regimental promotion and that there is a considerable block in the promotion in the lower ranks of the Royal Flying Corps ; and whether he can make a statement on the snbject ? Mr. Forster : The only officers who can be said to lose their regimental promotion on joining the Royal Flying Corps are those of the New Armies. These officers leave their regiments on joining the Royal Flying Corps and are placed on the General List. There is no blcck of promotion in the lower ranks of the Royal Flying Corps ; promotion, on the contrary, is very rapid. Casualties. Second Lieutenant THURSTAN FRANCIS BASSETT-SMITH, R.F.C., aged 19 years, who died in hospital on November 23rd from wounds, was the eldest son of Mary and Walter Bassett- Smith. Lieutenant EYNON GEORGE ARTHUR BOWEN, R.G.A. and R.F.C., reported missing on September 8th, since reported died the same day, was the son of the late Eynon George Rice Bowen, of Troedyranr, Newcastle-Emlyn, and Mrs. Bowen, of Hambrook, Bristol. Born in 1893, he was educated at Braidlea, Stoke Bishop, and was a scholar at Sherborne. He entered Woolwich in January, 1912, and was gazetted to the R.G.A. in December, 1913. He went to the front with a heavy battery in June, 1915, and in August became an observer, R.F.C. He passed as a pilot in May, 1916, and returned to the front. Lieutenant ALFRED VERNON OLIVER-JONES, R.F.A., attached R.F.C., who was reported missing and now officially reported killed on July 21st, was the elder son of the late William Oliver-Jones, nephew and adopted son of Mr. Alfred Taylor-Jones, of Wybourne Grange, Tunbridge Wells. He obtained a commission in the R.F.A. in October, 1914, and went to the front on February 4th, 1915. He was seriously wounded at the battle of Neuve Chapelle on July 9th, 1915. He subsequently joined the R.F.C., and became a qualified observer on March nth last. Sub-Lieut. CEDRIC LEE, R.N.V.R,, reported killed in action, will be remembered as the designer of the curious monoplane with annular-shaped plane with which he experimented at Shoreham in 1913 and 1914, it being piloted by Mr. Gordon England and Mr. Gordon Bell. Mr. Cedric Lee intended flying a machine of this type in the Gordon-Bennett race of 1914, but the war caused the abandonment of the project. 13 H More British Flyers in Roumania. ACCORDING to a message issued by Reuter, further British aeroplanes and pilots have reached Bucharest, after On the outbreak of war Mr. Cedric Lee joined the ranks of the Royal Naval Division, and recently was given a commis sion. He was the younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lee, of Fairfield, Broughton Park, Manchester, and was 34 years of age. Wounded. Lieutenant ARTHUR V. SHEWELL, Gloucestershire Regiment, attached R.F.C., who has been wounded in a fight with enemy aeroplanes, is the elder son of the late Major Arthur Shewell, of the Indian Army, and grandson of the late Major-General Shewell, of Cheltenham. Missing. Lieutenant NORMAN MIDDLEBROOK, son of Mr. E. H. Middlebrook, a well-known Leeds solicitor, and nephew of Sir William Midilebrook, M.P., who has been missing for some weeks, has sent a postcard in which he says he is a prisoner. A student at Repton when war broke out, he was given a commission in the Rifle Brigade. Later he was transferred to the R.F.C. • He is 19 years of age. Married and to be Married. The marriage of Mr. ROCKINGHAM GILL, R.A. and R.F.C., and Miss CHRISTINA COURT TREATT will take place at St. Cuthbert's Church, Philbeach Gardens, S.W., at 2,30 p.m., on Saturday, December 2nd, not on December 9th as first announced. The marriage took place last week between Lieutenant A. M. Walters, R.F.C., eldest son of Arthur M. Walters, Holmwood, Surrey, and SYBIL, younger daughter of the late Mr. H. S. EVERETT and Mrs. EVERETT, Boston, Mass., U.S.A. Items. The will of the HON. HENRY ALLEN ROLLS, of Tower House, Bletchingley, second son of the 1st Lord Llangattock, and elder brother of the Hon. Charles Rolls, has been sworn at £55.102. H ffl very long flights, to join the British aircraft already in Roumania, and to reinforce the British and French aerial forces now operating with the Roumanian army. IO60
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