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I/IJGHT Compensation for Raid ^Damage. REPRESENTATIVES of *a large number of municipalitiesand other local bodies attended a meeting at the Mansion House, London, on April 25th, to support the Committee onWar Damage in its appeal to the Prime Minister, on behalf of 718 municipalities with a population of 28,112,936, askingthat the burden of damage inflicted by enemy aircraft and bombardment shall be made a charge on national funds. The Lord Mayor, in opening the meeting, said the questionwas an important one, and he could not conceive why any man should? oppose the idea that the State should pay fordamage done by the enemy. Those1 who had suffered from the war he hoped would be compensated after the war fordamage done to their property. The French State was paying for damage done in France, and he declared that wasa just proceeding. Lord Parmoor moved a resolution, stating that :—" The Government Aircraft and Bombardment Insurance Scheme bore with peculiar severity on certain sections of thecommunity, while other sections were entirely free from its incidence ; that therefore the attention of the new Govern-ment should be called to the matter ; and. that the Prime Minister be asked to receive a deputation with a memorialurging the Government to abandon the" insurance scheme and revert to the policy of compensation from nationalfunds, as the only just and effective way of relieving individual sufferers from war burdens, which, in common fairness,should be borne by the whole community." He said that,' although the insurance rates had beenreduced 50 per cent., they were still too high. The Lord Mayor of York seconded the resolution.Sir Hugh Bell said the whole of the urban population of the kingdom was in favour of the objects of the Committee,and the Mayor of Margate said that 75 per cent, of the pre- miums under the insurance scheme came from the East Coast.Bombs in Switzerland. DURING the evening of April 24th two bombs weredropped at Porrentruy. A house was very much damaged and several of the occupants were slightly injured. Thepilot's nationality is not known, but the machine was fired at by the Swiss troops. The Lausanne Gazette reports that theaeroplane disappeared in the direction generally followed by German aviators returning from raids in France, and it isbelieved that it was a German machine. Germany has expressed regret for a recent violation ofSwiss territory, when a German aeroplane flew over fne frontier and landed near Doettingen. It is explained that themachine was unarmed and that the airmen will be punished. 3, 1917. AERONAUTICAL' SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. THE following have been elected to the Aeronautical Societyof Great Britain:— H. ParsonsCapt. C. F. Clapper- ton, R.F.C.Lady Burnham Capt. D.H. KennedyJ. E. Hodgson Miss M. Wilson Major F. Q. OgilvieSir Vincent Caillard Sub-Lieut. J. E"Courage, R.N.V.R A. P. DonnisonW. E. Reid A. H. FowlerH. W. Miller Miss V. MeekingMiss F. Meeking S. St. BarbeM. Fick A. H. TiltmanR. W. Seeley T. E. DaviesR. C. Cross L. G. Frise Associate Members.Miss R. du Cros W. E. KingW. H. White Lieut. W. S. Smith,A.I.D. L. D. Sloper E.L. Gandar Dower D. P. Muirhead,A.M.I.A.E. Lady Sarah WilsonSub-Lieut. • A. E. T. S. Fenton Courage, R.N.V.R. Members.A. W. Peck H. Burrougb.esG. A. Peck C. H. GresswellF. E. St. Barbe Mrs. H. JohnsonA. J. Wood R. S. MorrellA. J. Rowledge S, E. BlakeneyT- H. Carter C. C. WalkerH. Kerr A. WebbW. Birchenough H. BainesJ. Baines G. W. LynnCommander H. T. A. Bosanquet, R.N.C. H. Willand T. W. Willis Students. R. P, Hearder L. D. Whistler E. G. Moody G. K. Carlson T. P. McNeale L. J. Pond C. G. Miller L. A. Martin W. BARNARD FARADAY. E3 JanuaryFebruary March IMPORTS AND EXPORTS, 1916-1917. i AEROPLANES, airships, balloons, and parts thereof (not shownseparately before 1910). For 1910 and 1911 figures, see " FLIGHT "for January 25th, 1912 ; for 1912 and 1913, see "FLIGHT" forJanuary 17th, 1914; for 1914, see "FLIGHT" for January 15th,1915; for 1915, see "FLIGHT" for January 13th, 1916; and for 1916, see " FLIGHT" for January nth, 1917= Imports. Exports. Re-Exportation. 1916. 1917. 1916. 1917. 1916. 1917. £ I £ £ £ I 1,509* 10,842 6,399 67,033 Nil. Nil. 6,444 9.479 3&>&93 26,512 — 6 3.388 11,158 17,872 58,517 7 — 11,341 31,479 54,964 152,062 7 6 * January, 1916, correct amount ^1,509, not ^1,009 as printed in ourFebruary issue. NEW COMPANIES REGISTERED. HENRY DURKE, LTD.—Capital ^1,000, in £1 shares.Acquiring business carried on at 8-10, Chitty Street Works, Tottenham Court Road, W., by H. Durke as ironfounders,engineers, aeronautical, automobile and general sheet metal *w orkcrs & c FARRINGDON PROPELLER AND ENGINEERINGCO., LTD., 39, Victoria Street, S.W.—Capital £io,oco, in £1 shares (500 founders'). First directors : J. S. Cotman,F. M. T. Lange, J. E. Temple and J. C. McLelland. ST. ALBANS AIRCRAFT CO., LTD., Kinsbury Works,St. Albans, Herts.—Capital £3,000, in £1 shares (2,500 pre- ference). Subscribers: -H. C. T. P. Edwards and D. J,Cassavetti. If you require anything pertaining to aviation, study "FLIGHT'S" Buyers'Guide and Trade Directory, which appears in our advertisement pages each week. Blinding the Enemy. FLIGHT. 44^ST. MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON, W.C.2."" Telegraphic address : Truditur, London. Telephone : 1828 Gerrard. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. " FLIGHT" will be forwarded, post free, at the following rates :— UNITED KINGDOM. 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