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1919 - 0209.PDF
FEBRUARY 13, 1919 ^££3 ..—.'— •% -•-•^r~\&£iB: AI MS MS FR.OM THE FOUR. WiNDS. COUNCILLOR H. C. CHILD, Mayor of Ramsgate, is stated to have experienced 119 air raids and bombardments. Evidently a persistent hobby with Mr. Child. A CHANCE for the real worker, including all middle-class voters, to organise against Bolshevism, and all the iniquities it means, offers by joining up with the anti-Bolshevik League —otherwise the Silver Badge Party—to the existence of which Lieut. E. Corse-Scott (late R.E.) draws attention. The address is 4, Spring Gardens, Charing Cross, and all British men and women are welcome as members. As Lieut. Corse-Scott points out, it is the great middle class that pays the penalty of its inaction against this treacherous menace, those responsible for the mischief usually being at present in a position to escape. Join the League now, suggests the Lieutenant, and do your bit towards beating Bolshevism. IN the same direction we are glad to note that on Friday afternoon of this week at 3 o'clock Brigadier-General Page Croft, M.P., will preside at a meeting at the Queen's Hall " to form a league to protect all law-abiding subjects and oppose Bolshevist methods, objects and effects." He will be supported by Mr. Havelock Wilson, M.P., Prebendary Gough, Mr. Leo Maxse, and Mr. William Boosey. The secretary of the National Party writes that " while the gather ing is called by the National Party it is intended that it shall be entirely non-political, and those who join will be in no way committed to any party." Seats will be free, and tickets can be obtained from the organisers, 22, King Street, St. James's, S.W. 1. LET all patriots join in promoting this great cleanser of the Bolshy pestilence, which may otherwise ultimately threaten the British Empire's existence. SIR HAROLD ELVERSTON, at the London Institution, had a. good deal to say the other day upon the morality and the inexpediency of the State interfering witbTthe great insurance interests existing in this country, by shouldering the liabilities of the insurance offices and incidentally com mandeering all the accumulated funds for the reduction of the National Debt. Sir Harold, after claiming that most folk were " fed up " with bureaucracy, put forward, amongst other arguments in support of his contention, that the Govern ment had probably made handsome profits out of anti-air craft business, but he did not think the general public was too well satisfied with Government treatment, for in the settlement of claims well-founded complaints had reached him, and every insurance man knew what a hopeless muddle and what incompetency were shown when the scale of pre miums were revised about a year ago. THOSE thrifty and cautious souls who applied to the Aircraft Salvage Branch Department the other day for one and a-half yards or so of aeroplane wing linen for a baby's pinafore, summer frock, and what not, may now take heart, and possibly in a modified form satisfy their desires. Messrs. Hewlett and Blondeau, Ltd., of Omnia Works, Leagrave, Beds., we notice, are offering similar Belfast flax linen surplus to their business requirements, and suitable for casement curtains, blouses, shirts, etc., in reasonably moderate lengths, in contrast to the A.S.B., which prefers indents of 1,500 yards or more from each purchaser. So those wishful to procure a few yards of this very high quality aeroplane linen should get in right away. The prices range from 3s. 5d. to 3s. 9d. per yard, according to width. OFFICIAL confirmation of the success of the U.S. Air Mail Service, started last year, is now forthcoming under date January 18 last in the official " United States Bulletin " in the following terms :—" One of the most interesting events of the past year from a postal viewpoint was the establish ment on May 15, 1918, of the Air Mail Service between ' M w • •--. ••' Presentation at Hendon Aerodrome on Tuesday tost of 15 aeroplanes to the Canadian Military authorities General view of the presentation ceremony. 209
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