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JANUARY 25, 1917. going to take him out and make him enjoy himself.What do you think I am doing this for ? " THE OTHER PICTURE. Strangely it happened when I alighted from the very'bus on which the first picture was opened out to me. It was outside the Garrick Theatre. There was anold, old man—he must have been at least 80 years of age—.-and he was a bootlace seller. You may guessthat his clothing was more rags than cloth, and that his boots were boots only by courtesy. He had laidhis stock-in-trade on a ledge, and was busy emptying his pockets of all his belongings. There were bits of paper, cigar and cigarette ends, bits of string and all that kind of thing. Quite an ordinary everydaypicture • but what called my attention to him was three ribbons across his breast, and the fact that asoldier of to-day was watching the proceedings un- known to the other. " His world," I thought. " Everything hepossesses in this life is probably that little heap of rubbish." The soldier moved forward and addressed him."Hello, dad," he greeted him. "Having a clear out ? What's your ribbons for ? " " Oh, just afew little scraps, Laddie, just a few little scraps," he replied, " scraps with them I can take my hat off tonow, not the Hun sort you got to deal with," AVIATION has just scored another triumph in the decision•1 the French Academy of Sports to award its annual prize •f 10,000 francs for 1916 to Lieut. Guynemer, Chevalier ofthe Legion of Honour, holder of the Medaille Militaire, Croix de Guerre, and the subject of a very large number•f citations in the Gazette. The fact that Lieut. Guynemer has brought down 25 enemy aviators is, in the view of theAcademy, due to his tactical cleverness and admirable courage. This prize, which was founded several years ago byIthat generous supporter of aviation, M. Deutsch de la Meurthe, to be given for the most outstanding performanceof the year, has several times been awarded for air work. It may be recalled by readers of " FLIGHT " that it was givento " Beaumont "—otherwise Lieut. Conneau—for his various long flights on a Bleriot in 1911, while in 1912 it fell toGarros for twice beating the height record, winning the Ae. C. F. Grand Prix, and his flight from Tunis to Rome. THERE are quite a few men who have already served theircountry through the Naval side of our forces, and had to give in to that master of all mankind—ill-health. To most ofthese the decision of the Admiralty to authorise officers of the Naval services, who have been invalided out for this reason,to retain their rank in private life, will come as a pleasant reward for their past work. That the new order does notcarry with it the right to wear uniform, and that the privilege only applies to officers whose disabilities are controlled inand directly caused by the Service, will hardly be quarrelled with. THE order is the more welcome as it is retrospective to theoutbreak of war, and applies not only to R.N. officers but to the R.N.A.S., R.N.R., and R.N.V.R. It is necessary, how-ever, where an officer lias already been invalided out under these circumstances for application to be made to theSecretary of the Admiralty in the event of the right to use the old rank being claimed. , , , • THERE have been some pretty patriotic families this sideof the ghting lines, in giving sons to the cause. Eleven boys of one father sounds, however, like being well in the runningfor record. Perhaps, though, after all, as the story comes from Germany via Amsterdam, this one short of a dozendone to death in one of the Hun Zepp. piratical raids story has had to be brought into being through anything less notsufficing to brinH in sufficient marks—having regard to the collapse of the Hun Exchange—to make up the equivalent toPa—or is par ? Anyway, here is the story as told by the Dutch special correspondent of the Daily Chronicle :— " In one of the most recent disasters to Zeppelins whichvisited England eleven brothers were burnt to death. " An aged man recently here from Germany told how hebrought up a family of eleven sons, every one of whom entered the air service. The eleven young men formed part of the crewof one of the destroyed Zeppelins, and when this fell in flames in England they all perished. " ' My only consolation,' said the father, ' is that theydied for the Fatherland.' " The 100 h.p. Curtiss rrlplane, on which Miss Ruth Law proposes to make an attempt on an American coastto coast flight, following on her recent record, when she flew from Chicago to New York. Her idea Is to start from San Francisco for New York in the spring. 89
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