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THE National Sailors' and Firemen's Union have added another three months (specially ear-marked on account of the recent hospital bombing iniquity of the bestial Huns) to their post-war boycott of all that is German. WHAT this latest iniquity spells may, in a measure, be gauged from a statement in " A Londoner's Diary " to the effect that the bombed British hospital contained 4,000 patients, 1,500 of whom became fresh casualties under the bombardment. These casualties included 45 doctors, nurses and orderlies killed. This estimate, however, must be very materially discounted after Mr. Bonar Law's statement on Tuesday that the casualties were 300 " hospital cases " only. OUR only possible reply is, so far as military needs allow,the bombing of Hun towns, Rhineland and otherwise, con- tinuously and furiously, so that in sheer desperation theinhabitants may visit their wrath upon those who have willed such '' kultur." OOR LATTER DAY HOMERS. (Horatius Bo therein.) , " *:r£.-/ " Damn the Kaiser \ "It is with a full sense of my awful responsibility before God and man that I pen these words. I know, no man better,what the consequences may be, how drastic and far-reaching. Heavy and terrible will be the price that the hordes of theHun intend to exact for the simple phrase I have just written, but I stand by it. Britons, are you with me? ... You may have noticed that the war is not over yet. Christmas has come, and passed. But I still trust Haig. Therefore you may take it from me, all is well I And I will tell you something. Germany intends mischief. Germany does not love us. On the blood-spattered fields of Flanders her fell minions are working busily, unceasingly, for the wrecking of this fair land. • ..^.... Watch Germany 1 Yet all is well. The end is not yet, but the pattern of our destiny is being spun out on the mighty looms of Time. Reverently and with bowed head I declare that I will stand behind the British Empire. If she will but endure, our sea-girt Isle shall have my unflinching support until the last Hun lies howling in the dust. (Next week another splendid spasm from Mr. Botherem.) (Mr. C. Allblue.) One hears it averred that certain lewd fellows of the basersort (to wit, British " workmen ") have seen fit at this crucial <$><$• Mentioned for Mahsud Operations. IT was announced in a supplement to the London Gazette on May 18th that the Government of India has forwarded the following list of officers and non-commissioned officers whose names have been brought to notice by Lieut.-General Sir A. A. Barrett, K.C.B., K.C.S.I., K.C.V.O., for valuable services rendered during the operations against the Mahsuds, March- August, 1917 :— Royal Air Force Military Wing.) Lieut. (Temp. Capt.) H. A. Fletcher; 2nd Lieut. E. R. A. Robinson ; No. 1555, Sergt. (now Flight-Lieut.) J. New, Medal for Gallant Rescue. AT the monthly meeting of the Royal Humane Ecciety a medal was awarded to Flight Sub-Lieut. Douglas B. G. Francis, R.N.A.S., who, although himself badly injured, kept his mechanic afloat until help arrived when their machir. e fell from a height of 400 feet into the Humber on J anuary 13th. A Woman's Record Flight. Miss KATHERINE STINSON, according to a message from New York on May 24th, broke the American non-stop record in an attempt to fly from Chicago to New York. Owing to shortage of gasolene she was forced to descend at Bing- hampton. She flew 783 miles in ten hours. Changes in U.S. Air Service. AT last the United States has a separate Air Service, and one of President Wilson's first acts under the Overman Bill which gives him power to transfer the functions of one Government Department to another, was to separate the Air Service from the Signal Corps. In future the duties of the Chief Signal Officer shall be limited to such duties as existed before aeronautics became an adjunct of the signal service. Also, as briefly indicated in our last issue, a new department has been created for the production of aircraft. The Bureau of Aircraft Production, created under Mr. Ryan, have full charge of construction, and the Director of Military Aeronautics, General William Kenly, is appointed head of MAY 30, 1918. hour of our country's fate to declare a strike. Should any one. of them, reading these lines, feel himself aggrieved thereby, we recommend him to the perusal of Comic Cuts or some such innocuous periodical. There are not enough copies of the " Aerodromes " to go round. Margeritas ante porcos.- Or, following the example of dear old Sidney Smith, who avowed that he preferred the third book of Euclid to the others, as it was " not so passionate," they might alternatively seek to fill their vacuous skulls, or even take an interest in their job. As Mr. Kipling's unforgettable House Master, King (to whom I am privily compared by my friends), might have said, Cucullus non facit monachum (the cowl does not make the monk: my apologies to those who, having received a public school education, stand in no need of enlightenment, but one has to consider the herd) and a certain facility with the file does not even, in these days, constitute what, when I was a fitter at the bench, we used to consider a workman. , Let me be brief. ... .. (Continues to be brief for five pages.) ' (Mr. Deadly Bore.) We feel no remorse or pity in stating anew that the success of our arms in France is due in no small measure to the daring of our intrepid airmen. We have said it before ; we shall say it again. Ca saut aux yeux. But it should ever be bom in mind that the efforts of these gallant " fellows " (if so slangy an expression may be per- mitted) is inseparably and indissolubly connected with efforts which are put forth by those who purvey those commodities indispensable to the effective waging of war. In fact, the workers. . : (" Boy, chuck over the scissors and that paste pot "). Our apologies are due to our readers for setting out anew Prof. Pancake's delicate and luminous summing ap of the case, but we feel that it is particularly apposite at the present juncture. The professor says, in part :— " If a herring and a-half costs three ha'pence, and the specific gravity of Government beer is -000000329, then—_jj r x-dmhK , ,T 1 - K' a + dmhK - K'# " To arrive at the state of the workman's mentality (which we will call " x," that being the sign usually accepted for an unknown quantity) as a consequence of these phenomena, whether objective or subjective, let us premise . . ." Continues nebulously.) B. the new Army Air Service Corps, and is responsible for the actual operation, including the training of airmen and the transport and operation of flying machines. The Aircraft Board remains in existence merely in an advisory capacity, without power to limit or affect the work either of Mr. Ryan or General Kenly. Mr. Hughes, after conference with the Attorney-General, has decided to begin an investigation into the aircraft charges immediately. The proceedings, ne- cessarily in secret, will be in the nature of a Grand Jury enquiry. Americans Help to Protect Paris. THE Paris authorities have accepted the offer of the American Aviation Command in France to provide an American squadron to participate in the defence of the capital. The squadron will be composed of pilots chosen from among the most expert. An International Aerial Army. " THE Parliamentary Aviation Group, of which M. Fainleve has just been elected President, has passed the following resolution :— • , •* * The Aviation Group, believing that the operations? of aerial warfare will play a decisive rcle in obtaining victory, and believing that the Allies have at their disposal sufficient material to enable them to obtain a crushing superiority in the air, expresses the wish that the Government shall, firstly, form, in agreement with our Allies, an aerial aimy, to which a clearly defined plan of campaign shall be assigned ; secondly, centralise the administration of the Air Service in order to speed up to the utmost' the production of material for aviation ; and, thirdly, organise rationally the recruiting formation and training of the -personnel of the Air Force, and assure for it the status of an arm composed of picked men. M. Painleve has recently written an article in the Petit Parisien urging " the co-ordination of effort " in air warfare, in which he says " Let the Allies pool their knowledge, their information, and inventive faculties, as they have done their corn and their gold." S96
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