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1917 - 0114.PDF
Tlie late Major F. W. Goodden, R.F.C., who was killed on Sunday whilst flying. were increasing, and he commended to the public this exhibi-tion, which was inaugurated to help the relatives of those who were killed or disabled while doing their duty in the air. ONE and all, therefore, should make it their business to contribute their shilling entrance money to this Fund, and at the same time get more than full value for their expenditure. REMINDERS to wish the Kaiser many unhappy returns ofhis birthday were freely sold on Saturday last in an Essex town in the form of relics from a Zeppelin brought down inthe neighbourhood last September. And the proceeds helped t« swell a little bit more funds of that merciful association,the Red Cross Society. " No mention is made of 'freedom of the air ' in President Wilson's ' peace proposals.' Is this to be maintained ? And if so, how ? If not, why ? " So writes Mr. J. H. Overtoil, of Woodstock, Oxon. Echo answers : " Why ? " PERHAPS Mr. James M. Beck, a fellow citizen of Wilson,aad a former Attorney-General of the U.S., may know some thing upon the subject. When speaking at the Pilgrims'Banquet in New York last week, this is how he expressed his views upon the too-proud Wilson's peaceful projects : — " If the Allies are conquered, as I do not believe theywillbe, then woe betide America. If Germany is conquered, as I hope to God she will be, then the most America can hopefor is that the brave peoples who have fought and bled and died for the ideals in which we have as vital a stake as theymay understand that Mr. Wilson's unvictorious peace does not represent the American people's views or sympathies." CONGRATULATIONS to Lord Montagu of Beaulieu uponhis safe arrival this time in India. Evidently he has lost none of his enthusiasm for the future of aviation, judging by his FBBRUAKY I, 1917, lecture upon the subject in Delhi on Friday last week. InLord Montagu's opinion mails and passengers between India and England will in ten years' time be conveyed by air.- Heestimates that the distance to be covered would be from 3,600 to 5,220 miles, according to route, and that the timetaken would be from three to five days. WE are a something of a prophet ourselves, but we're nota bit jealous of being thus blanketed of a little of our wind. Phew, it does blow a bit hot occasionally in India HENDON District Aircraft Committee was one of the repre-sentative workers' bodies which attended a very big important conference at the Memorial Hall last Saturday to protestagainst the Government's new railway ninepence for sixpence ramp. WHAT would happen, we w-ouder, if the whole of the" rampees " were to agree to stay away from their respective occupations by way of protest for the infliction of what onthe surface appears to be about the meanest sort of penalisa- tion of workers bureaucracy has sn far perpetrated ? A charming silver Trophy which has just been pre-sented to Flight-Commander Captain L. F. Forbes by the Directors and employees of the Aston Chain andHook Co., Ltd., of Birmingham, with whom Captain Forbes was associated prior to his joining up withthe Air Services. The inscription on the plaque records the admiration of his plucky and skilfulpilotship whilst returning from the German lines in September last. 114
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