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FROM Chicago. As others see us and it. P.M.R. writes : " It may interest your readers to learn what people here think of the British attitude in connection with the German air-raids on England. I have been to New York, Buffalo, Detroit, Pittsburg, Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland (Oregon), and everywhere I have been asked about these raids and why we do not stop them—or at any rate, retaliate. When I tell people that our ' principles' prevent us from doing this they laugh and say that we are fools. They simply cannot believe that a bishop, or a socialist peer, or even an ex-attorney-general can advocate non-retaliation without being hanged to a lamp- post. They regard us as helpless asses whom the United States must rescue from a mess or as consummate fools who deserve all we get, and give us no credit for ' high- mindedness ' at all. On the contrary, our fiaccidity does us a lot of harm in their eyes, and all sections regard us as being afraid to make the only reasonable reply to German raids. ' If it is merely a matter of principle,' people say, ' why have you adopted poison gas, liquid fire, and kindred things, the use of which surely involves a question of principle too ? ' Nonsense. Wait and see what we will do to their cities if they bomb our camps." The American newspapers do not say this, because they are careful to avoid criticising us, but the people say it— and the harm it does ! " THE Dutch Government has decided to send a military com- mission to Sweden to arrange for about 250 motors for aeroplanes and submarines. AN interesting case is reported in our current issue, in which a compensation clause (under the Workmen's Compensation Act, in connection with an air-raid) is dealt with. The inter- pretation of the various clauses of this Act is a pretty ticklish business and as an appeal has been lodged, it is necessarily a case of having to " wait and see." In any event, the ultimate result is mainly of consequence to the Insurance Companies, by whom no doubt the case will be carried to its bitter con- clusion. Maybe the war will be over before agreement is arrived at and then—well, it will hardly matter one way or t'other. ACCORDING to the hope of Mrs. Florence Allen Degen, hon. secretary of the American section of the Lyceum Club, when speaking at Sir Richard and Lady Cooper's Carlton House Terrace house on Monday upon " Women's Work in our Allied Countries," an American girl wfio is a very expert aviator, may be the first person to bomb Berlin, that OOOO OOOO O NOVEMBER I, 1917- being her one great ambition. Nothing like keen competition for a job like that, so it's up to " one of our's " now to get going and get the job over, lest such a laurel wreath should fall even to our American cousins. TEN YEARS AGO. Excerpts from the " Auto." (" FLIGHT'S " precursor and sisterjournal) of October, 1907. "FLIGHT" was founded in 1908. " NULLI SECUNDUS " DISMANTLED. At the time of going to press last week, " Nulli Secundus " was still riding proudly at her moorings on the Crystal Palace cycle track, waiting until the elements were favourable for Colonel Capper and Mr. Cody to sail her back to Farn- borough. On October 13th and Monday there was an adverse wind, and on Tuesday the heavy rain so saturated the rigging that the airship was in effect " water-logged." The con- ditions on Wednesday were still unfavourable, and finally on Thursday morning a gale sprang up which was inimical to the airship's existence in its exposed harbourage. Prompt steps were taken by the sappers in charge, but even before addi- tional help could be obtained from the Crystal Palace employees (who were quickly mobilised on the spot by the manager), the wind increased in force to such an extent that deflation became an obvious necessity in order to prevent further damage. M. FARMAN MAKES A SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT. Tuesday, October 15th, was a memorable day for M. Henri Farman, who has of late turned his attention to aeroplanes, for he succeeded in flying a distance of about 285 metres, thus establishing a new unofficial record (Wright Brothers barred) in the heavier-than-air school of flight. M. Farman made his experiment while a high wind was blowing, and the aeroplane rose from the ground after travelling about 100 yards. At an elevation of about 18 ft. it commenced to travel horizontally, and continued its undulating flight at a speed of between 20 and 30 miles an hour, until it finally came down gracefully and without shock to the earth. LONDON TO SWEDEN BY BALLOON. On the evening of October 12th the enormous Daily Graphic balloon, " Mammoth," left the grounds of the Crystal Palace in charge of Mr. A. E. Gaudron, accompanied by Mr. Turner and Mr. Tanner, in order to try and establish a record long-distance run. After crossing from Yarmouth to North Denmark, the balloon travelled rapidly over Scandinavia, where, unfortunately, the aeronauts lost their bearings in a fog, and had to descend at Brochan, in Sweden. o o o o o o o o o o o o o Major W. A. Bishop, V.C., R.F.C., with his wife, mother, and brother in private railway car at Shelburne, Ontario (his native province), where he was "held up" by enthusiastic ad- mirers upon his wedding journey to Owen Sound. o o OIO O O 010 d o
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