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NOVEMBER 8, 1917. " DURING the night of November ist-2nd our airmendropped bombs on London, Chatham, Gravesend, Ramsgate, Margate and Dunkirk. Big fires showed the satisfactoryresults of our attack." So runs last Saturday night's German official report (Admiralty per Wireless Press). It is curious,however, that nobody noticed it that night. But perhaps the Hun is mixing his dates as well as his facts, since an officialtelegram from Berlin vid Amsterdam (per Reuter) speaks of a raid on the night of October 3ist-November 1st. FOR the first time a lady has been elected an AssociateFellow of the Aeronautical Society. Miss Eily Marguerite L. Keary, of the National Physical Laboratory, who has beenhonoured by this high qualification in the Society's member- . ship, took Honours in the Mechanical Science Tripos at Cam-bridge, and has done a good deal of experimental and research work in aeronautics both at Cambridge and Teddington. ONE element displaces the other. Is it an omen'of the futureascendency of aviation over sea-power T The Air Ministry is taking over the head offices of the Metropolitan Water Boardin Savoy Court, Strand, for its official quarters. Now we know where we are. According to a Rotherhithestatistician, after " careful calculation," the individual risk of being hit in an air raid is 69,990 to I against. Nothing likebeing exact. ANOTHER example of the fatuousness of divided localauthority, when general public policy is at stake, is well brought out in the variety of Warning methods against air-raids which each borough, being a power unto itself, is pro- mulgating. One elects to show green lights as " Take Cover "notice; another selects red for the same purpose; yet another introduces electric illuminated signs, like unto theUnderground train indicators, and so on and so forth, so that any benighted pedestrian who happens to stray a few yardsbeyond his own parish boundary may well find himself in- conveniently the centre of Hun bombs and British shrapnel,merely by reason of his not being conversant with the particular choice of warning which prevails in that immediate locality.Whatever the notes of alarm and all clear are, they should be uniform for the metropolis. To allow parochial aestheticseach to have a voice in the matter is a mistake, serious almost to criminality. SOUNDS rather mean for the Home Office to disown responsi-bility in regard to any Boy Scout buglers who may receive injury whilst on duty during air-raids when they are on thealert to notify " all clear." It is therefore much to the credit of Messrs. Savage, Sussens and Co., of Finsbury Pave-ment, who have offered to make a present of a Lloyds' policy to cover 350 of these lads. Under this, the parents of anylittle patriot who may be killed while on duty, by bombs' or shrapnel, will receive /50 and a scout injured under like Unique utilisation, as a mess room, of an aeroplane packing case by the R.N.A.S. in the Eastern Mediterranean. Note the shell cases as flower vases. -.•-,.-!•>.•"•-•:*--•:..-e-;-i<;.; *vr"1^-- 1174
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