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1918 - 0862.PDF
AUGUST I, 1918. FOUR WINDS MAJOR-GENERAL BRANCKER more than simply appreciates" FLIGHT'S " slogan " One service; one uniform; one badge."In the United ^States he strenuously urges it as vital for America to follow by establishing an Air Ministry in Washing-ton modelled on the lines of the British Ministry. " The American Air Forces," he is reported as saying, "should beorganised on a basis independent of the land and sea forces, and the appointment of an independent head is vitally impor-tant. Until an Air Ministry is appointed, and the Allies co-ordinate their efforts in the aerial department, GeneralBrancker will make no predictions about an aerial offensive on a grand scale carried to the cities of the Germans remotefrom the battle line." Miss CHRISTABEL PANKHURST was not only speaking onbehalf *of the Women's Party, but was voicing the feelings of nine-tenths of the male population of this country, whenlast week she said at the St. Martin's Theatre, " there was more than a coincidence in the success of the Allied arms on theWestern front and the threat of a munitions strike in this country. Berlin had ordered this strike and the Bolshevistsand pacifists, who were fomenting it, were only obeying the orders of their German masters. The Women's Partydemanded of the Government that it should show that it meant business by taking the shirkers and putting them intothe trenches. The Germans had given the signal for this strike because they knew that if our Armies were starved ofmunitions and aeroplanes the military genius of Foch and the valour of the Allied troops would be in vain. Womenmunition makers, rallied by the Women's Party, which got them into the munition factories, had prevented strikes inthe past. Consequently the pacifists had been trying to work on the women. The party had a letter from one ofthe storm centres which made it fairly certain that the women were being told to strike." VERY terse and in keeping with the whole trend of hustlenow in evidence from all sides, was Mr. G. Ward Price's message from Brindisi last week: Such are the conditions, said Mr. Price, of speed, action,and energy that characterise the campaign which the Italians with their British naval and aerial Allies are carrying onagainst the Austrians in Albania that it has been possible for me during the last 20$ hours to .— 1.—Fly across the Adriatic from Brindisi to Valona.2.—Motor out to the new Italian front line in Albania. 3.—Visit Fieri, taken from the Austrians in the last ad-vance ; cross the Semeni by a new bridge alongside the Ponte de Metalli, that the Austrians blew up in their flight; seethe captured piles of war material and the admirable work of development and civilisation that the Italians are carrying onin Albania. 4.—Visit the admiral and the general commanding theItalian forces in Albania. 5.—Call on the British senior naval officer at Valona, thefire of whose monitors helped to hasten the Austrian retreat. r6.—Swim in the Vojusa River, which was the old Italianfront line. 7.—Lunch and dine in a iairy summer palace, overlookingValona Bay, built as a mess for the Italian Headquarters Staff at Valona, which itself is little more than a primitiveAlbanian village. 8.—Take part in a moonlight bombing raid on Durazzo. .o.—Fly back across the Adriatic to Brindisi. "IKULTUR '' has its own inimitable way of handling unpleasanttruths and facts, as witness the story of the great Hun " victory " in the Marne pocket. And here is how the Germanpress dish up in attractive black headlines their reference to the recent trip to London and back by aeroplane of the Kingand Queen of the Belgians. " King Albert and his Queen," so the headings announce, " panic-stricken at the nearapproach of the German forces to their hiding-places, have fled to London." " FORTY-SEVEN " in The Star had an ugly tale to tell theother day of the.difference in treatment of recruits over 40 in the Army so cheerfully described by Mr. Macpherson andthe old men in the Air Service. " Forty-seven " avers that H • 13 E E a H H H H 13 m m E 13 IS a si 13 13 E H El 13 a a Ministry of Information. The resting- place of the late Major Me C u d- den, V.C., D.S.O.,M.C, D.F.C.M.M., on the British West e r n front in France. H H S E H 86O
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