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1918
1918 - 0320.PDF
MARCH 21, 1918. A D.H. 5 biplane on view injTrafalgar Square in connection with the Y.W.C.A. Blue Triangle Week. Front view. all. Even this well-known Haymarket firm have barelyenough to even fill the requirements of the top-rangers, so that with the general run of officers who do not get in prettysmartly, it will probably mean having to have patience until after the war. IN regard to rank distinctions, the following will, 'wethink, not be found very wide of the mark. Second Lieutenants and Lieutenants will wear an uprightmetal bar each side of the cap badge, and captains will wear two upright bars on each side. Field Officers will wear onerow and General officers two rows, of gold oak leaves, round the peak. Rank will also be denoted by bands of braid at thebottom of the sleeve, navy style, but minus the executive curl ; Second Lieutenants will wear a bird surmounted by acrown. Lieutenants one row of braid or gold lace surmounted by bird and crown. Captain, two rows. Major two and ahalf rows. Lieutenant-Colonel, three rows, Colonel, four rows. The men will wear a bird in red silk at the top of the sleeve.Quartermaster Sergeants will wear a crown, below the elbow, a Flight Sergeant, three chevrons and crown ; corporals andsergeants two and three chevrons respectively. 1st class air-mechanics, two-bladed propeller under bird, wirelessmechanics, hand and thunderbolt under bird. A TRULY Gilb;rtian situation has arisen over the Huns'night bombing of Paris. During the recent attack the Embassy of one of the enemy Empires was damaged by a bomb.Two days later the caretaker of the building applied to the Legation of a neutral state which is charged with the interestsof the enemy in question during the war to present to the French Government a bill for the damage. The bill whichFrance is expected to pay for the damage done by the enemy to his own property is over ^160. THE conveyance of mails is both literally and figurativelyin the air. Several times recently we have recorded progress in this direction, and from a Swedish source it is stated thataeroplanes are daily conveying letters between Berlin, Hanover and Cologne. We can bslieve it. Nothing like real live" practice " of this definite character to make perfect. To the Archbishop of Naples has come a telegram from thePops deploring the Huns' air-raids on that city and the loss of life among the peaceful citizens. It is to "be feared thePope will not have cause to feel that His Holiness has been slighted, as even Rome will now hardly remain sacred tothe blood-bedabbled wild beast of the world. Rome's turn is probably next, and that it is thought to be so may be gauged 3BB Side view from behind of the D.H. 5 biplane on view in Trafalgar Square in connection with the Y.W.C.A. Blue Triangle Week.
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