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FEBRUARY 20, 1919 magnitude of the undertaking, the proposed " Flightways " and " Flightdromes " being clearly indicated. TRULY the Russian Bolshevist crowd are a pretty little lot of scoundrel sportsmen. Having made all women common property, they now further profess to promote equality and democratic rule " for the people " in quaint fashion by a decree of the Soviet Government at Moscow, according to a communique in the official Isvestya, by which all elected bodies created by the Bolshevist Revolution in the domains of the Ministries of Marine and War, including the Air Service, are abolished, and for them are substituted institutions of the type of those existing under the old regime. Another decree abolishes the Councils of Railwaymen, and hands their functions over to Commissions nominated by the Government. <• A third decree confesses frankly that among the officers of the central and local Bolshevist Administrators there are a largo number of former members of the Secret Police and of the gendarmerie, and the decree gives instructions that thay shall gradually be got rid of. , m m VCAN anarchical tyranny go much further ? The whole of our British Bolshies should be shipped across to their Russian spiritual home as speedily as possible, for fear they might miss some of the democratic privileges which their Muscovite brethren appear to be distributing so freely^to the Russian people. a • » ANOTHER milestone. Mr. F. Marten Hale, of Bromley, Kent, who states he is the inventor of the " Hale " rifle grenades and aircraft bombs used during the War, claims that he was the first to suggest underwater bombs to the Admiralty. " I did so," he writes, "in a long advisory and explanatory letter, dated November 19, 1914, addressed to the Director of the Air Department. The following is one of the state ments contained in my letter :—' With a sufficient number of aeroplanes so equipped with an armament of bombs, the power and danger of the enemy's submarines would be usefully curtailed, if not exterminated.' " The matter was handed over to the Submarine Attack Committee to pursue with me. This was done and eventually I applied for two patents (Nos. 23,662, December 7, 1914, and 23,787, December 9, 1914). At the request of the Ad miralty, by letter dated November 21, 1914, a design was prepared (Drawing No. 248, 9.12.14) by me and submitted to them, in which, following an interview with Admiral Sir Percy Scott on December 6, 1914, a hydrostatic fuze was employed, so that, should my bomb, or depth charge, miss hitting the submarine—awash or submerged—it would still explode at a depth of 30 ft. in the vicinity of the vessel, and thus bring about its destruction. A hydrostatic fuze, of Red Tape in Paris IT is evident that the British have not a monopoly of red tape. For some time people have been wondering why the aerial post between Brussels and Paris took so long, and the Intransigeant has run the trouble to earth. It appears that when the letters arrive in Paris they have to be taken by train to Lille, in order to be checked by the French Postal uutrol Service, and then brought back by train to Paris 1 The Canadian Airways FOLLOWING on recommendations by the Canadian Aero nautics Advisory Committee, the Dominion Government has sanctioned five airways across the continent. The All- Red route will go from St. John's, Newfoundland, through Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, Ft. William, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary and Vancouver to Victoria, B.C. The Sunset Airway will go from St. John's to Halifax, New Brunswick, Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, Port Arthur, Winnipeg, Saskatvon. Edmonto to Prince Rupert. The Hudson Bay Airway will run from Winnipeg to Port Nelson. The Peace River Airway will go from Edmonto to the Great Bear Lake and to Dawson City, while the Dawson Airway will go from Victoria to Vancouver, Prince Rupert and Dawson City. The Transatlantic Flight CAPT. HUGO SUNDSTEDT, who is engaged in assembling a seaplane in Newark Bay, New Jersey, as mentioned in our last issue, has now made*a formal entry for the Daily Mail £10,000 Transatlantic Prize. This makes the fourth actual entry, the others being a Whitehead entered by Capt. Fayze and a Handley Page and a Caproni entered through the Aero dub of America. Lord Auckland, who arrived in Liverpool recently from water pressure valve, did not form any part of the inventions as patentable matter, as it was an old and well-known device. The developments of this method of attack commenced with, and continued from, the date of my aforesaid letter of November 19, 1914 ' A FLYING HONEYMOON COUPLE.—Recently Major E. L. Williams, R.A.F., was married to Miss Biddy Gibson, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Gibson, of Cowes, Isle of Wight. The bride and bridegroom after the ceremony and reception left later for their honeymoon journey in an Avro aeroplane decorated with streamers, while a large bouquet of mimosa was attached to the outside of the fuselage. The bride had been in France for two years as a motor driver for the R.A.F. Our photo, shows the bride and bridegroom in their flying attire previous to their departure. America, stated that he intends to a.tempt an aerial flight from Britain to the United States next August on a British machine. He expressed the firm conviction that an air journey to America is possible, but thinks the time is not yet ripe for a continuous service between the two countries. The Cape to Cairo Flight CAPT. SHORTRIDGE, R.A.F., has left South Africa to arrange landing grounds at Buluwayo and other places in Central Africa in connection with the flight of Brig.-Genl. Herbert from Egypt to the Cape on a Handley-Page machine. Arrangements have already been completed at Pretoria and Bloemfontein. " Scientific Management in Industry " A SPECIAL conference will be held under the auspices of the Industrial Reconstruction Council, on Thursday, Feb ruary 27, at 5.15 p.m., in the hall of the Institute of Jour nalists, 2 and 4, Tudor Street, E.C. 4, when an address will be given by Major Pells, R.E. (Assistant Director, Efficiency and Costs Section, Ministry of Munitions), on " Scientific Management in Industry." The lecture will be followed by a discussion. No tickets are necessary. An Aeroplane Wedding AFTER the wedding at Cowes, Isle of Wight, of Maj. E. L. Williams, R.A.F., and Miss Biddy Gibson, the bride and bridegroom, on coming out oi church, passed through an arch formed by R.A.F. mechanics, with aeroplane spars, propellers, rudders, and elevating planes. Later in the afternoon they proceeded from a convenient ground near the church on their honeymoon in an Avro aeroplane, flying across the Solent, accompanied by a couple of other aero planes. <$> 3> <S> <& 247
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