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officials were sentenced to death, and two friends of theofficial Were sentenced to five and three years' penal servitude respectively. A third friend, who lent a copy to a colleague,who made two copies, Was sentenced to death. Another man Who Was present When the copies Were made received threeyears' penal servitude, and a man who made a copy was sentenced to death. Copies of this proclamation came into thehands of a school-boy, Vho took them to , - school, with the result that 20 school-boys•',' from 15 to 18 years of age, were sentenced altogether to 24 years' penal servitude.- * The sum total of the 39 sentence pronounced was six capital sentences and 91 years'penal servitude. Ramsey Macdonald and his crew shouldbe proud of their nice " German friends." NOTHING like training the mind of theyoung by practical demonstration. There- Jore the introduction, in connection With-t' the public secondary schools cadet camp at • Marlborough, of not only cyclist and-•; machine-gun sections of regular troops into -the operations of the cadets' "field-day,"but of an aeroplane for scouting Work and the -;'-- dropping of messages during the " fight," is^ to be highly commended. Beneficial results cannot help but follow, and GeneralSclater, Who takes a keen interest in the camp, Was upon his second visit more than? satisfied with the efficiency and steadiness /*-' of the cadets, and said so, promising, more-• over, to do all in his power to ensure the ,• continuance of the camp. In this move-ment there is a highly valuable asset for the next decade of Britons. ....'" MORE power to the elbow of the Dutch in•-'_ their methods oi giving physical evidence of ' their neutrality by potting at Hun aircraftwhich so unceremoniously frequently and insolently violate Dutch territory. There is plenty of evidencethat this preventive action reflects the will of the true Hol- lander, and by Way of giving emphasis to this form of retalia--• tion the Dutch Major-General Boellaard tot Herwijnen -;3 (retired) has made in the columns of the Amsterdam Telegraaf•' an appeal to 600 Dutchmen to send each a kwartje (^d.) to SEPTEMBER 6, 1917. present a gold watch to Sergeant Lok, who shot down one oftwo German aeroplanes Which Were violating Dutch neutrality on August 18th by flying over the Province of Groningen ontheir way back from the English coast. " As far as I am aware," wrote Major-General Boellaarcl," Sergeant Lok is the first Dutch soldier of whom it can be said with certainty that he personally gave a clear proof of our A British machine in the hands of the enemy, as she landed. will. Where possible, to defend our neutrality by force. Andthis is not without significance in these days, when violation of our neutrality is so often reported." AEROPLANES " of the near future " are visualised by aVictoria Street civil engineer, in some respects from quite a How the German papers depict, graphically, their '' claims,'' for and against, in regard to* the _ aeroplane losses for £ the three years of the war. Needless to"say, the Allies' version] of those c'o m p a r a t i v e drawings would tell a very dif- ferent story. 1st war year (1914-15)German .. 47 Enemy .. 72 2nd war year (1915-16) :—German .. 173 Enemy .. 455 3rd war year (1916-17)German .. 462 Enemy .. 1,771 920
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