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1917 - 0705.PDF
JULY 12, I917. THE idea of an aerial post to bring in more funds to the British Red Cross is admirable. In Egypt this has actually materialised, the following being an extract from a summary of work in that country which has been received at the head- quarters of the Joint War Committee at 83, Pall Mall : " An aeroplane leaves a certain point in the Canal zone daily, and carried such Red Cross comforts as fans, fly whisks, chocolate, gramophones, &c, to outlying medical units in the desert." IF the letters and packages only carry official recognition in the form of specially ear-marked Government stamps, there should result automatically a further valuable source of income from the demands of the philatelist. It should be a very profitable opening for the fund, without costing the Government a penny. SUCCESSFUL example will ever inspire successful imitation. In this respect a very feeling and eloquent tribute was paid by Brig.-Gen. Charlton last week upon the occasion of his opening an Eccentric Club hostel for disabled soldiers and sailors in Hackney, in memory of the late Capt. A. Ball, V.C. General Charlton said that, although not the first to make a name in the R.F.C., Capt. Ball was about the first to surpass in fighting in the air, and the fact that numerous ex- ponents of his art were flying over the German lines was materially due to the example he set and the success he achieved. Neither the element of personal danger nor the ambition for notoriety entered into his calculations. In this way his work still lived, and "he knew of no more enduring monument to his gallantry nor higher praise due to a soldier. IN connection with this same good cause a gathering (including the Mayor and Corporation of Nottingham) later took place at the Eccentric Club House, when General Brancker, R.F.C., once again expressed some very sound views upon aviation. The fact that the Germans had bombed the East End, he thought, had done more good for aviation than anything during the last five years, and they Were already feeling its effect. He believed the future of this country, and possibly the end of the war, depended on aviation. We had fought bravely, tritterly and hard, and stopped the Germans, but he believed that decisive results """had to come through the air. BY the state of political affairs in the land of the Huns, it looks as if the enemy public were at last also beginning to realise what was coming. WHEN the day does arrive, the resulting peace should^be one by the people for the people. Or, as V orwaerts, one of the few German papers which has continued to publish flashes of truth, puts it : " The peace problem must not be settled, however, on the basis of military policy or power. It must be based upon the principles of international law." Just, so, but there must, nevertheless, be International " Police " to see there are no more opportunities of con- temptuously tearing up " scraps of paper " as in 1914. REGIMENTAL Trumpet and Bugle Calls for the R.F.C., by an Army Order for June, have been approved, and by the time this is in print copies may have been issued to all con- cerned. CAUSE and effect. The modern way. Pekin, Saturday, 11.50 a.m. " AN aeroplane dropped bombs on the Palace to-day," Pekin, Saturday, 7.40 p.m. " General Chang-H'sun, who is much depressed by the bombing of the Palace and the failure of his coup, has tendered his resignation to the Emperor." " The Emperor of China has abdicated."—Reuter. How anybody could possibly court butting voluntarily into trouble existent in Chinese affairs is beyond compre- hension. As reported, the mix-up in Ireland is as smooth as a mill-pond by comparison. This is how the situation is described from Shanghai :— " Four parties have arisen : Firstly the Restorationists ; secondly, the Bureaucratic Republicans, headed by the ex- Premier Tuan-Chi-Jui, who announces that he is marching toward Pekin at the head of the Eighth Chihli Division, from Machang, 40 miles to the south of Tientsin ; thirdly, Feng- kuo-Chang, who is alleged to be intriguing for the Presidency with the Provisional Government at Nan-king ; and, fourthly, the Shanghai Republicans, who are despatching the cruiser ' Hai-chi ' to Ching-wan-tao, hoping to bring Li-Yuan-Hung to Shanghai." WITH THE BRITISH FORCES IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN.—Hauling in an Allied Scout.
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