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Flight, March 8, 1917. First Aero Weekly in the World. Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER. A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice and Progress of Aerial Looomotion and Transport. OFFICIAL. ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. Me. 438. (No. 10. Vol. DC.)] MARCH 8, 1917. reakly, Prio* I*.Port rna, 2d. Editorial Office: 44, St. MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON, W.C. Telegrams : Truditur, Westrand, London. Telephone : Gerrard iBa8. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. Unittd Kingdom .. 8j. SJ. Abroad IJJ. orf. CONTENTS. , , ... editorial Comment: • • • PACE A Roll of Honour Problem 219 The Paper Crisis .. .. .. 219 The Aeronautical Society's Activity .. .. .. . • .. .. 220 To India by Aeroplane .. 220 The Peril of Optimism .. .. .. .. .. 220 The Air Services in Parliament »., *_,,.. '... .. .. 222 The Roll of Honour * .. 222 Melal in Aeroplane Construction .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 223 The Royal Aero Club. Official Notices " 226 "X" Aircraft Raids 226 Answers to Correspondents .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 297 Armchair Reflections. By the " Dreamer" 228 Airiams from the Four Wind* .. .. 9 Aviation in Parliament . .. .. 23! - Methods of Measuring Aircraft Performances. By Captain H. T. Tizard, R.F.C. .. . 232 Personals .. .. .. .. .. ., .. ., .. .. 234 The British Air Services 235 Aircraft Work at the Front. Official Information 237 Honours .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 238 EDITORIAL COMMENT. HE question of whether officers and men killed in the course of duty in this country should figure in the official casualty lists has been raised again in the case of an officer of the R.F.C. who was killed on Salisbury Plain while going through a " star " course. His name did not appear in the lists, and his father wrote to the War Office to enquire the reason of the omission. In reply he was told that " the names of officers killed in this country are not sent to the Press." Why ? The officer in question, 2nd Lieut. Cox, had spent ten months at the front, and had taken part in several air-fights before he returned to England to undergo the course during which he met his death. That, apparently, all goes for nothing in the eyes of the hide-bound precedent-mongers of the War Office. The officer was killed in England—and that is all there is about it. It would not matter if he had served at the front since Mons, his name cannot appear in the Roll of Honour because he did not meet his death abroad ! Lieut. Cox's father has put. a hypothetical case to the War Office, and it will be interesting to see the reply, if there is any. Suppose, Honour Problem. says Mr. Cox, an R.F.C. cook, who has never been within the danger zone, is accidentally killed at his post. His squadron-commander, after undergoing air perils for two years, and winning the V.C., D.S.O., and M.C., is killed while instructing pilots in England. Which of the two is held worthy of the small recogni- tion of a place in the Roll of Honour ? Obviously, the answer according to the War Office manner of doing things is : the cook, and the cook only. We have no hesitation at all in describing the system as a disgraceful one, when it denies to the relatives of the fallen that small, but prideful, consolation of seeing the name of their dead inscribed on the Roll of Honour. These officers and men who are killed on duty at home are just as much on active service as those at the front, and to keep back their names in the way that is done is nothing but a piece of callous pedantry which is the result of too heavy a diet of precedent. It must be altered and the names of our dead who died at the post of duty must be given equality of treatment. What, we wonder, happens in the case of an officer or man who is killed by the enemy in the course of an air raid on this country, or during such a bombardment as that of the Kentish resorts the other night ? We take it that, logically, their names are " not sent to the Press." They have been killed in England and are " Not Entitled." It is a queer institution, the War Office. :'•-.„,-,;„•. Everyone who has read Mr. Lloyd George's speech will have seen that Crisis. again paper is one of the essential pro- ductions to be hit the hardest. Imports of paper and paper-making pulp, which had already been severely restricted, are to be still further reduced by no less than half. The resulting situation, from the point of view of the public and the proprietors of newspapers alike, is a most serious one. Many of the daily and weekly journals are endeavouring to meet it by raising their prices, in the hope that this will assist in keeping circulations down to the mini- mum. Others are limiting production, so as to keep their consumption of paper within the limits of the amounts for which they hold licences. So far as " FLIGHT" is concerned, for the moment we ask our readers once again to assist KS by ordering their copies in advance from their newsagents. In the ordinary course of the business of a news- paper there must be a certain percentage of " returns " —in other words, waste. By placing their orders for " FLIGHT " in advance much of this waste can D
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