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1918
1918 - 0321.PDF
MARCH 21, 1918. THE GERMAN AGO BIPLANE—In our issue of December 13th, 1917, we published scale drawings and detail sketches of the Ago biplane. We are able this week to supplement the illustrations then published by the two accompanying photographs. from a new decree published by the Prefect of Rome onMarch 15th, limiting the lighting of the city and Province of Rome. The decree has the double object of saving elec-tricity and darkening the towns as a precaution against air raids. Street lighting, .which has already been much reduced,is to be further diminished by 50 per cent. No lights are to be displayed outside buildings except to indicate chemist shopsand places selected as " refuges " in case of air attack, which will display one dim red light. At 10 o'clock in the evening all lights must be extinguishedon staircases which have an outside window or skylight with the exception of one candle to indicate the way to thecellars. An hour and a half after sunset shutters must be closed so as to prevent any light showing outside. IT'S a sorry business from first to last, and somehow we fancy by this time, those in Paris who set out their thoughts a month or so agone, as to their feeling humbled at the wholeof the bombing outrages being handed out to London instead of Paris also receiving its share, and thereby giving a littlerelief to our citizens, may well feel that they are open to revise their views. THAT the Shipping Problem is about the hardest nut tocrack, without injuring the kernel—no not Colonel, that part's all right—the Government have had so far to face, is by generalconsent admitted. That it will be set right no manner of doubt exists. But what strikes one is the remarkable factthat top-hole politicians, knowing of all the backdriving of pro- duction by the overpowering current of inefficiency, have notthought it right long since to have taken the necessary steps to divert this overwhelming flow towards " defeat " in theform of famine. ANOTHER VIEW OF THE AGO BIPLANE.—A slight difference in the strutting is noticeable in this view. The machine previously described in "FLIGHT" had a diagonal (incidence) strut between the two outer Jnterplane struts. In the machine shown in this photograph this strut, it will be seen, has been replaced by a wire, thus conforming more with standard practice. 3*7
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