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1918 - 0975.PDF
AUGUST 29, 1918. ^* W " AIR/SMJ'FROM THE FOUR. WINDS. SEVERAL English newspapers have referred during the last week to the crossing of the Atlantic, as described in the latest issue to hand of our American contemporary Flying, as if the feat had been actually accomplished. The " story," as told by Alfred E. Poor, omits, even as a final word, to convey the slightest suggestion that the whole thing is but a flight of imagination, certainly somewhat cleverly worked out in detail, and therefore to the uninitiated well calculated to deliberately deceive. Which, having regard to the vast importance of the actuality of such a happening, hardly com- mends itself as being worth while, apparently for the mere sake of catching some of the lay press through plausibility of the hoax. In fact, taken as a whole, it is but a very " Poor " joke at the best, especially having regard to the fact that the journal publishing this concoction is the official organ of the Aero Club of America. - ' ' - • Apropos our par last week relating to the growing keen- ness in Ireland of recruiting for the R.A.F., Col. Robinson, the Recruiting Organiser for Dublin City and County, last week was very satisfied with the trend of things, and announced there was a good chance of getting the quota he had been asked to obtain. There was a splendid flow of recruits, with a distinct preference for going into the air. It must be looking gratifyingly healthy when the Irish Recruiting Council as early as Tuesday last week had to issue the following statement:— *" Owing to the pressure of recruits the Irish Recruiting Council has found it necessary to seek extra premises so that medical examination can be completed within the day of application." The Bhoys would hardly like to be out of that march into Berlin presently. It's something to be thankful for that our American Allies are able to appraise the Kaiser's horrible and blasphemous hypocrisy at its real value. The " All-Liest " Frankfurt Whine has particularly angered them, apparently. Following the Hun outrages at the commencement of the war, public opinion was slow in appreciating the abomination of jthe whole thing, but with the piled up horrors recognition in the States, as one correspondent puts it, gradually dawned upon the people that the codes of Geneva and The Hague had never been accepted by Germany in good faith, and to-day, despite the special pleading of university exchange professors before the United States entered the war, were now as con- vinced as in England that organised terrorism is part^of Germany's military system. Much of the criticism one hears in America as to the Kaiser's hypocrisy cannot be printed in respectable newspapers—-[we can believe it]—but the latter also manage to convey a rough impression as to their real views. The New York Times, for example, which is usually restrained, says: " To compare William with Atilla is defamation of Attila's character. Attila had some compunction. He spared some things, but the Kaiser, in the name of military, necessity, defends the most atrocious crimes his soldiers ever committed." Reprisals, it is urged here, should be part of the Allied programme, but the word more generally in favour is " retribution." NOBODY will quarrel with " retribution " so long as we get there. It is to be hoped the Allied armies will have a chance of fighting their way through Germany to Berlin for a period of not less than six months. There'll be a lot of the boys who'll prefer that to going by train. WAR in the air has much to answer for. Judging by a series of police court cases the other day in which the defen- dants were all charged with defrauding the L.B. and S.C. railway by using other folks' season tickets, it would appear as if members of all the old Scotch families had migrated to " London by the Sea" to avoid too intimate attention from the Hun air-pirates. Israel Posekoff, Louis Koransky and Leon Maintz make a sample trio of these noble old families. The only wonder is that these aristocrats are not cunning enough to wangle the fuel license business to enable them tc travel by luxurious motor or even plane down to Brighton. Any youth who has an inclination to serve his country in the Royal Air Force should have no difficulty in obtaining full information as to his chances of getting on. He need have no hesitation in enter'ng the bureau which has just been opened at 82, Strand. It is not a recruiting office in any sense of the word, but those in charge are simply out to give the fullest information to any enquirer. The R.A.F. is full of possibilities for any healthy British boy. There is always a collection of souvenirs, as well as models of airships and aeroplanes, on view inside and in the window, and that they are interesting is sufficiently shown by the crowd which gathers, as shown in our photo, above. 973
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