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JULY 25, 1918, A marriage has been arranged between Enseigne de Vaisseau ETIENNE BRUZON, French Navy and Aviation Maritime, and EVELYN NORAH MAVOURNEEN, younger daughter of Col. MACARTNEY, C.B., late Dorsetshire Regiment, and Govern- ment Secretary, Guernsey. The marriage arranged between MAT. C. K. COCHRAN- PATRICK, D.S.O., M.C., R.A.F., son of Capt. and Mrs. Kennedy Cochrafi-Patrick, Ladyland, Beith, Ayrshire, and ELLA, daughter of Mrs. SYDNEY GROSS, 55, Green Street, Park Lane, will take place at St. Mark's, North Audley Street, on July 27th. An engagement is announced between LIEUT.-COL. F. F. MINCHIN, D.S.O., M.C., R.A.F., second son of Maj.-Gen. F. F. Minchin, C.B., and the late' Margery Minchin, of Armagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, and Helywell House, Bishops Waltham, Hampshire, and MARGARITA BEATRICE (RITA), only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. WHITE, of The Poplars,'Maid- stone. The engagement is announced between CAPT. G. R. POLLARD, R.A.F., youngest son of Sir George Pollard, M.P., and Lady Pollard, of Southport, and Miss D. CHEETHAM, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. JOHN A. CHEETHAM, of Brighouse. Items. MR. HIATT BAKER, of Oaklands, Almondsbury, Bristol, has presented "Athens," the well-known bathing place on th« Thames above Windsor, to Eton College, in perpetuity, as a bathing place for "the scholars of Eton College." The gift is to commemorate the love of his son, who was killed in a flying accident last summer, for Eton and for " Athens." Among recent gifts received by the R.A.F. Aid Com- mittee and R.A.F. Prisoners Fund is the sum of £25, sent in memory of LIEUT. FRANCIS L. MOND, R.A.F., killed in an air fight on May 15th. The parents of LIEUT. H. B. REDLER, M.C., who was accidentally killed while flying in Scotland on June 21st, would greatly appreciate letters from his friends. They should be addressed to Mr. D. B. Redler, Moorreesburg, South Africa. CAPT. JOHN L. TROLLOPE, M.C., R.A.F., who was brought down in March and is now a prisoner in Germany, has had his left hand and wrist amputated as a result of his wounds. Capt. Trollope is the airman who accounted for six enemy machines in one day. Any information relating to SEC. LIEUT. PHIXIP WEST- HOFEN, R.A.F., reported missing April 12th, now unofficially reported dead, would be gratefully received by bis aunts, Misses Glendinning, c/o White and Park, 66, George Street, Edinburgh. - Excess Profits Awards. THE following award has been made by the Board of Referees under the Finance Acts, in response to applications made for increases in the excess profits statutory percentage :— Aircraft Manufacturers.—The Society of British Aircraft Constructors, Ltd., applied in respect of the manufacture of aircraft (including both heavier than air and lighter than air) and aircraft propellers. Companies have their rate raised to 15 per cent., and private undertakings get 1 per cent, more for periods prior to 1st January, 1917, and 2 per cent, more for periods after 31st December, 1916. The Looping Fatality at Brighton. AT the adjourned inquest at Brighton, on July 17th, on George Ralph Sinden, who was killed by a sandbag which fell from an aeroplane manoeuvring over the town, Lieut. Stewart, Royal Sussex Regt., attd. R.A.F., who was in charge of the machine at the time of the occurrence, said he was instructed to take a new machine to France, and while flying over Brighton, at a height of 4,500 ft., he was en- deavouring to loop the loop, that being one of the recognised tests ; and he knew of no regulation against the manoeuvre over towns. Having dived down, he was about to turn the machine upside down, when he observed a sheet of flame issue from the engine. He was in great danger, and ex- perienced considerable difficulty in righting the aeroplane. Then he noticed something on the tail. At first he thought that a portion had broken, but something fell away. Ulti- mately he realised that sandbags had gone. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and exonerated Lieut. Stewart from blame, but expressed the opinion that responsibility rested upon whoever sent out the machine in the condition in which it was. Boxing in the R.A.F. THE first boxing championships for schools of the Royal Air Force took place at Reading on Saturday last, when, after keen competition, the final bouts resulted as follows : Bantam-weights: Bird (Oxford) beat Gardner (Bath). Feather-weights: Wallis (Denham) defeated Cameron (Oxford). Light-weights: Driver (Hastings), w.o., Lewis (Bath) being unable to contest the final owing to a sprained wrist. Welter-weights: Norman Clark (Reading) beat Rowe (Denham). Middle-weights: Willcox (Denham) and White (Oxford) each received first prizes. Light-heavy- weights : Hitge (Denham) defeated Koch (Hastings). Heavy- weights : Baker (Oxford) beat Mitchell (Bath). Forthcoming Sports. THE first annual sports of the Grahame-White Recreation Association will take place at the London Aerodrome, Hendon, on Saturday, July 27th, commencing at 2.30 p.m. An Athletic Sports meeting in connection with the British Caudron Social and Athletic Club will be held at Preston Road (Metropolitan Railway) Sports Ground, on Saturday, August 17th, at 2.30 p.m. There will be several open events, and the price of admission is is., including tax. Austrian Aerodrome Captured. IN their recent advance in Albania, Italian cavalry- succeeded in capturing an Austrian aerodrome near Fieri, with machines, pilots, mechanics complete. One machine which landed after the Italians had securedjpossession wasalsq captured. . . Germans Bomb a Prison Camp. DURING the night of July 15th- 16th some German bombing aeroplanes carried out an expedition, and wittingly or un- wittingly chose as their objective a prisoners' camp situated 50 kilometres from the lines in the region of Troves. The bombardment lasted more than an hour, and gave the enemy excellent results. Two French soldiers, attached to the camp station, were wounded, 94 German prisoners were » killed and 74 wounded. ... v D'Annunzio's Bombing Command. •" ONE of the aeroplane squadrons when Pola was bombed for the tenth time, on July 17th, was commanded by the poet Major d'Annunzio. Over 1,000 kilogrammes of high explo- sives were dropped on the arsenal and the Broni Islands. On the return journey the machine in which was Major d'Annunzio was, owing to some defect, obliged to plane down, and alighted undamaged in the marshes near Venice. Noted German Pilot Accidentally Killed. CAPT. WILLY REINHARDT, commander of the late Baron von Richthofen's "circus," is reported by the Lohaianzeiger to have been killed during a trial flight. Reinhardt was credited, on June 13th, with having brought down 20 enemy machines, and the squadron claims 177 aerial victories under his command. - t.-_ Vienna Fears Air Raids. FROM an Austrian source information has been received in Rome that the people of Vienna and Berlin are beginning to entertain serious fears of enemy air raids on their cities. A Vienna newspaper speaks of the growing frequency and increasing extent of the Entente aerial operations over both German and Austrian towns. The paper speaks with alarm of the growing superiority of the Entente aviation, and admits that all the Allied Powers now possess machines powerful enough to enable them to make bombing raids on the German and Austrian capitals. (Ts. Take Over a German Firm. THE Custodian of Alien Property in the U.S. announces that the German-owned Becker Steel Co. of America has been taken over. In this way, it is understood that the U.S. Government will obtain possession of a secret process for preparing high-speed steel, which is expected materially to aid the production of high-power aeroplane motors. It has been established that the majority of the shares are owned in Germany. " Carburation." IN spite of the importance of the subject, the principles underlying the operation of the carburettor are very little understood generally. Doubtless this is because it is not easy to describe what happens in simple language. In our sister journal" Auto.," however, " Technicus " has tackled the difficult task, and very successfully. The first article appeared in the issue for July 19th, and the concluding portion is in this week's issue. Copies of the two can be obtained from the publishing office, 36, Great Queen Street, Kingsway, W.C.2, for 3d., post free. 839 ,/w
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