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1918
1918 - 0022.PDF
JANUARY 3, 1918. THE Hull Chamber ot Commerce proposes, with the co- operation of the Hull Corporation, to raise £2,000 for an aeroplane to be named " Hull " and to be presented for im- mediate use at the Front. The Chamber significantly adds that if it is still in existence at the end of the war the aeroplane will be presented as a souvenir to one of the colonies. MANNHEIM feelings are being reflected very strongly throughout German districts, within measurable distance of the air-raiding zone, and those hitherto comfortably com- plaisant Hun citizens who have applauded the air-pirates' attacks upon London and other open cities, are already beginning to revise their opinions upon these methods, in Major-General E. B. Ashmore, C.M.G., M.V.O., R.A., commanding the London Air Defences, mentioned in despatches for valuable anti-aircraft services in the United Kingdom. Gen. Ashmore is forty-five years of age and a cousin of Lord Glanusk. An Artillery officer, he became connected with the R.F.C. after the war started, and received the C.M.G. for his services last year. spite of the encouraging promise of the Hun military au-thorities that all attacks upon Hun nests will be returned " two blows for one." The special Amsterdam correspondentof the Times on New Year's Eve confirms this effect of our decision to administer a good course of the Huns' own medi-cine upon themselves in the following paragraph :— " The air raid reprisals undertaken by the Allies are, I havegood reason to know, having a most salutary effect in awaken- ing the population to a sense of the consequences produced bythe Germans' ruthless air raid policy. Only by this means can the German home population be brought to realise theirrulers' mistakes. Every Entente air raid is a most valuable educational influence in this direction. Great nervousnessis felt throughout Germany, especially in the more exposed parts, by the intention of the Americans to invade Germanyby air. This subject is universally discussed, though efforts are being made to calm the uneasiness by declarations aboutAmerican bluff." SAVVATIS TAWANLADAH, the chief of the famous IroquoisIndians of Canada, has, it is announced, put himself into training for the R.F.C., and is now in process of working forhis wings, " S. T.," who has already, whilst serving in the Canadian Infantry, had a taste of fighting on the Westernfront, is prosaically and officially known in the Army as Lieut. J. R. Stacey. FALSE " Take Cover " alarms by the youth of London nowappear to have entirely superseded all other forms of so-called amusement, such as pavement-shoving, bonnetting andhealthy winter sports of a similar character. Fortunately our London magistrates do not appear to have any particularlysympathetic leaning towards this latest form of hooliganre- creation, so that it may be hoped that a few hard laboursentences as followers of the fines, and in some cases "remanded 111 custody," now being inflicted, may bring about an altera-tion in the habits of these pests of the community, whose ages of 17 and 16 probably protect them against the most speedyremedy, viz. : the birch. Nothing like personal application lor reaching, k la Homocea, the nervous system. THAT flight in an aeroplane over Dublin last week, wascharacteristic of the Countess of Drogheda. Lord Wimborne was to open the Air Services Exhibition in aid of the RedCross and other worthy objects later in the day, and Lady Drogheda, who is so utterly thorough in all she undertakes,distributed the information by leaflets, to all whom it might concern. IT is almost incredible that even the tame German populacecan be so utterly gullible as to accept the very thin Lord Kitchener story for which certain " well-informed neutrals "who have been in Germany recently, are responsible. The story, so it is affirmed, of Lord Kitchener's captivity is keptup there in order, it seems, to relieve the anxiety of those who are becoming seriously scared about the threatened Britishair raids. According to all accounts, the authorities there tear nothing so much as a panic, and reassure the people bythe statement : " They know better than to attempt reprisals, as they know what would happen to Lord Kitchener ! " SOME are hoping that the rumours that the British Museumis to be made available for the Air Board may after all prove to be hot air. It may be that a misapprehension has arisen andthe Government only intend to reserve it for the presentation in glass cases of those " a cients " who for so long successfullyopposed the creation of a real Air Force. WITHOUT doubt expansion of the accommodation for thoAir Force Executive is necessary, but the many arguments being put forward against the acquisition of the BritishMuseum for the purpose, have in them sound commonsense, subject to there being alternative schemes. In this connec-tion what is the matter with the Savoy (when the Cecil was annexed we then hinted at the bridging of the " wind-tunnel" which separates these two huge caravanserai), or the Strand Palace Hotel, or the ? 18
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