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1918
1918 - 0130.PDF
JANUARY 31, 1918. Q^ answers in Parliament, whether the latterare " in the negative " or otherwise, will hardly alter the fact, which is pretty common knowledge, that the Geman authori-ties are deliberately placing both our own and French officer prisoners of war in places of peril in towns which there is everylegitimate reason for our Flying Services to bomb. Mr. Butcher was inquisitive upon this point last week, and onceagain put forward the excellent suggestion to the Under Secretary for War of sending German officer prisoners ofwar, from Donington Hall and elsewhere to London or other places where they would be subject to the risk of German airraids on non-combatants and women and children, and of utilising Donington Hall as a hospital for our wounded soldiers.Mr. Macpherson, without promising any action in this direction, admitted that rumours had even reached him, andintimated that the Government was going as far as to inquire as to the truth of these rumours. So that we may now hopenext year or the year after, a few selected Yunker Knuts may find their quarters shifted to the " fortress " of Londonor such fortified towns as Margate and Ramsgate. ALWAYS provided the pick of the said Knuts have not already been restored to their over-sensitive sorrowing relatives in Hunland. That's where a few hostages of Kultur like Tirpitz -Would now have come in handy, had they not been bargained aWayin exchange. As Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, the Marquis of Lincolnshire on Monday, when addressing, at High Wycombe, a " Gathering of "Welcome " to some 200 Bucks active service men, discharged from the Army and Navy, in very con- vincing terms gave his version of the meaning of "The King of England," when honour was accorded to that toast throughout the Empire from members of the most truly democratic con- stitution in the world. It comes home to us the more when we see the hideous chaos which the attempt has brought about, to run a country like Russia upon so-called democratic principles. " As a representative of the King," Lord Lincolnshire said, " I want you to consider what those four words ' The King of England ' really mean. When as loyal men after dinner you drink the King's health,.you are not only drinking the health oi the man who. so worthily wears the Crown of King Alfred, and w.ho, in his own person, and through other men, represents the stability, of this glorious Empire. You are drinking to law and order and liberty and justice. You are drinking to the judges oil the Bench, and to the Parlia- ments all over the world that are elected by and responsible to the people. You are drinking to the great native Princes and huge populations of India, to the Confederation of Australia, to the Dominions of Canada, to the Union of South Africa, and to every great pioneer who has left his own country and sailed to plant, the British flag in the most distant parts of the globe. Do remember when you drink the health of the great Constitutional Monarch of this country that you are drinking to the prosperity and the luck of all those gallant men who have, gone out and bled for the Empire." QUITE a good idea of Sir Woodman Burbidge to throw open the immense facilities of Messrs. Harrods, Ltd., for the illustra- tion of the organisation and work of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, the Women's Royal Naval Service, and women's work in the Royal Flying Corps. By this means ocular demonstration will be afforded by means of a collection of photographs of the various phases of life in these services. The uniforms of the services will be. exhibited, and there will be show cases of badges, rank marks, and similar objects. Daily addresses are to be given by women speakers, out- lining the work of these branches of war service, both from the technical and from the domestic sides, and much interesting information will be available .regarding life and conditions with the women's forces. , . . THE appropriation of ^200,000,000 in addition to the £128,000,000 already set aside for aviation by the United States Government is strongly supported by General Squier, the Chief of the N.S. Signal Corps. It'll be wanted, and more. H H H H H "British Official." On the British Western Front in France. A Gotha strafer, who re- cent 1 y brought down a Gotha aero- plane. m B B H H m m B H H El 13 El m B B H 0 H 126
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