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tion is so great, however, that he hardly notices this turmoil of light and fire, while the pilot is too busy watching the signal lights and answering them care- fully, to be affected by a hostile demonstration. Nearer and nearer draw the range bars, and as they cross the Mole the observer presses the lever slowly forward. Behind him he hears the clatter of the falling bombs. At once now he climbs up to his old position beside the pilot, and tells him that he has finished. The great wings rise up across the sky as the machine sweeps round and away from the boiling Maelstrom of shells and searchlights and green balls which are now all round it. The observer looks over the side JULY 18, 1918. to the Mole far below, and sees a great red flash in the sea beside it, and then another on the Mole itself, arid then another, and the last one in the sea beyond. A pall of white smoke lies across the black curve and above the crash and clamour of the shell can be heard the dull thud of the bursting bombs. Behind, the Germans vainly sweep every corner of the night skies for the machine, the shells still burst high over the Mole, ami the green balls rise in hundreds above the coast, but it is too late. The work has been d6ne, and the machine is roaring home down the sky.1 The pilot is drinking warm coffee from a Thermos, while the observer writes out his report of a successful air attack on Zeebrugge Mole. Music in the R.A.F. IT was announced in the Court Circular of July 12ththat the 1st Royal Air Force Band, under the direction of Capt. Claud Powell, had the honour of playing a selectionof music in the forecourt of Buckingham Palace during luncheon. This was the first public announcement that the R.A.F.possessed a band or was paying any attention to the question at all. As a matter of fact the band, which has been re-cruited during the past week or two from one of the R.A.F. depdts, is the first of several which it is proposed to start,and forms part of a larger scheme for the organisation of " music, both choral and instrumental, in the force which isbeing developed by Maj. Walford Davies, organist of the Temple Church, who is organising director of music of theR.A.F. An R.A.F. school, of music has been formed in London with Capt. Claud Powell as Officer Commanding.Special attention is being given to the formation of glee clubs, and pending the compilation of an R.A.F. song book,books of part songs, &c, have been issued by the Air Ministry. The bandsmen wear the blue uniform of the R.A.F. witha white lyre embroidered below the bird on the arm. The programme of music played at Buckingham Palace includedSousa's " Liberty Bell " March, Jarnefelt's " Praeludium," Handel's " Largo," Mendelssohn's " Spring Song," Schubert'sballet music from Rosamunde, Edward German's "Welsh Rhapsody," " Reminiscences of Grieg," arranged by CharlesGodfrey, the Introduction to Act III of The Master singers, and Balfour Gardiner's " Shepherd Fennel's Dance " Patents in Enemy Countries, &c. THE Board of Trade issued the following notice onJuly 16th :— " Payments to and on behalf of ' enemies ' in respect ofPatents, Designs, and Trade Marks. " The Board of Trade hereby give notice that they haverevoked the general licences of December 7th, 1915, and September 5th, 1917, under which, subject to certain con-ditions, the payment was permitted of fees, &c, due in enemy countries in respect of the grant, registration, orrenewal of patents, designs, and trade marks, and also the payment in His Majesty's dominions and Allied territoryon behalf of enemies .of similar fees, &c, in respect of such industrial property. All such payments are consequentlyprohibited in future." • "• An R.A.F. Regatta.THE R.A.F. held a regatta at Hammersmith on Saturday. In the single sculls, the contest for which was from Thorny-croft's to the Kensington Rowing Club, Air-Mech. Gibson won easily from Air-Mech. Taylor; Flight-Sergt. Dempseyand Air-Mech. Allewell beat Air-Mech. Taylor and Air-Mech. Bickell and Sergt. Jones and Air-Mech. Gibson in the finalof the pair-oared race, the course for which was from Chiswick Eyot to the Kensington Rowing Club. The four-oaredrace resulted in a win for Air-Mech. Moore, Air-Mech. Taylor, Corpl. Donkin, Sergt. Jones (stroke), and Air-Mech. Hoyle(cox.), who defeated Air-Mech. Lale, Air-Mech. Allewell, Air-Mech. Gibson, Air-Mech. Marshall (stroke), and Corpl.Watts (cox.) in the final. The First R.A.F. Band, with Capt. Claud Powell as Officer Commanding.—The members have been recruitedwithin the last fortnight from one of the R.A.F. depots, and the band is but the forerunner of many others. * _ 792
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