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1918
1918 - 0776.PDF
JULY II, 1918. THE Secretary"of State for Air, as Baron Weir of Eastwood,took his seat in the House of Lords on Tuesday afternoon. " A SETTLEMENT in the London aircraft factory strike has not been reached, but negotiations are continuing." YeGods 1 and we are at war, and there is a Defence of the Realm Actl ••..-• . .-:•-.• THESE strikes in Munition Works—very much inclusive ofaircraft production f actories—should be officially and publicly placed on record in the general press, together with fullnames and addresses of the instigators and those most pro- minently associated with these Bolshevik tactics. Then,when later on, the children ask Daddy what he did to help the Huns win the war, he can proudly point to the press cuttings—all beautifully and expensively framed without regard to cost out of war-wage profits—adorning the ancestral halls,letting them speak for themselves. That should be a proud moment—-each and every time—for both parent and offspring. POSSIBLY with these full names and addresses some quiteinteresting information might be forthcoming from outside sources as to origin and associations, past and present.You never know. Hun machinations are winsome, weird and wily. ST. MICHAEL, the Patron Saint of Airmen, has now a full-blown Guild, which has been initiated by the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, with the Rev. A. N. Morgan, St.Michael's Presbytery, Ashford, Middlesex, as its Director. All Catholic airmen of the R.A.F., the Dominions and theU.S.A. are accordingly invited to place themselves under their Patron Saint's protection by joining the Guild. Itis to be hoped those who, for various reasons, do not formally enter the fold are not for all time under a ban. THE new uniform of the R.A.F. is to be " sky-blue."Hun airmen will make many a bolt from this blue ! (From " Whipped Topics.") ACCORDING to Vorwaerts, Herr Scheidemann, in his Reich-stag speech, described the bombing of towns by airmen as senseless acts, and said the belligerents must come to someagreement about it. Why '' must '' at this hour ? CAPTAIN LAGRIARDIA, a member of the American FlyingCorps and of Congress, is also an active member for the Propagation of the Truth in Italy about the All-Liest and hisHun legions. When on,this very important missionary work last'week at Florence he said : " In a few days the time willhave expired when the Kaiser promised his people victory, instead of which he is defeated on the Italian front andhis army has been stopped on the Western front. He has quarrels with his own Cabinet, there is hunger in Galicia,and the Jugo-Slavs are breaking away. We can imagine him falling on his knees in his usual blasphemous mannerand calling on the Lord,' Are you no longer my ally ? ' and the answer which will haunt him to his dying day, ' Yes, but ourtreaty was only a scrap of paper.' " ;• - •• THREE thousand South Africans in the Royal Air Forceis not such a bad contribution from a Colony which was to be one of the deciding factors, according to German calcula- PRESENTATION OF AEROPLANES AT BROOKLANDS ON JULY 6TH—One of the machines presentedby the Hon. H. Burton, K.C., a representative of the Union of South Africa, to the R.A.F., and accepted by Major J. L. Balrd, Parliamentary Secretary of the R.A.F. 774
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