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1918 - 0348.PDF
Allies joining in thefun, so that the Wacht am . Rhine' should be a pretty big reality from end' to end. Hoch ! THAT retaliation invery great strength may be expectedagainst London is natural now theGermans realise that they really have onceagain carried matters too far for evenBritish humane scruples. So, afterall, the new "cur- . few" decree is adistinctly wise move (but why not havestuck to the 9.30 in- stead of an hour later,just because someone " butted "in?), elimi-- nating not only the risks of unsafe offici-ally recognised crowded raid-shelters, but the " much more dreadedconsequences of small-pox and otherloathsome plagues which appear to be anatural aftermath of close proximity tothe alien population * which chiefly patron -• ise these pits of con- tagion. As has been• so repeatedly pointed out, those who are• within their own four walls stand ahundred to one better chance of' coming' off scathe- less, by remaining• there, than those who begin rushing aboutto bury themselves -in some very doubt-ful " safe " shelter, which stands exactly the same chance of receiving the next " egg " as the spot which the refugeemay just before have left. Yes, the "curfew" is distinctly sound in principle, although truly it may not spell in- FLYING TERMS ILLUSTRATED The lost prop. MARCH_28, 1918. creased prosperityto the bloated restaurant profiteer-ing shark, who has battened on the pub-lic more and more during the war, andwhose gre«d has reached its climaxwith the recent ration cards. How they" work "it, goodness only knows. A standshould be made by black - listing themore barefaced, so that officers andothers who are either restricted to maxi-mum amounts, or have not the muni-tion profits to draw upon, which nowwould appear to be so universal, maygive these places a miss in baulk, andnot get landed in the quandary of theparty of R.F.C. officers who recentlybegan dinner with melon and soup, andthen found the only other thing left theycould top up with was the proverbialtoothpick. IT is perhaps for-tunate for those un- lucky folk who hap-pen upon damage to property on landcaused by the ex- plosion, whether in-tentional or other- wise, of mines, thatthe Government Air- craft and Bombard-ment Policy is in being, as throughthis channel has now- been found an easyway out of granting compensation for such explosions, upon similar lines to damage brought about by aircraft raids. TheAir Raid Compensation Committee is the authorised body to deal with any claims under this head. THE ROYAL VISIT TO THE CLEMENT-TALBOT WORKS.—A group'during the tour. \ 344
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