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1919 - 0351.PDF
MARCH 13, 191 o • lEiS several which, as a matter of fact, had escaped our record. Our only regret at seeing this roll of trouble in cold print is that it must convey a considerable amount of gruesome satisfaction to the devilish Hun to know that the air pilots were usually so successful in finding such satis factory targets for their bombs. We only regret that the Armistice prevented a similar com pilation being made of the Berlin residents of position and their troubles. FIRST effects of the threatened coal-miners' trouble may be found in the following notice issued last week by Messrs. Vickers, Ltd., at their Sheffield works :— " Coal shortage : The company has not been able to accumulate more than a few days' stock of coal, and if the threatened strike of miners takes place it will be impossible to carry on the departments which are large coal users. Other departments will be kept going as long as possible, but the company regrets to have to give notice hereby to determine the services of all workpeople on March 22; and until the proper supply of coal is assured engagements from that date will only be from day to day." An " Open " side view of the passengers' cabin and seating accommodation of the Rolls-Royce twin-engined Handley-Page fuselage now on view at Selfridge's. MORE and more to follow. • _ Truly a case of dog eat dog. ALL the monkeying about by the authorities in regard to first sanctioning, then calling off and then again smiling upon the proposed " flight " of some of our leading planes to Madrid for commercial " missionary " work, cannot but have a serious effect upon the minds of the very susceptible Spaniards. Matters are not so revolutionary in Spain as to warrant such vacillating policy, and it is to be hoped that reason will prevail, and the " samples " be on view at the Spanish capital, if only to save the face of British aerial enterprise. How silly it does seem for great departments to quibble over words. Having invited the sending of newspapers to our Army of Occupation on the Rhine, it was not very objectionable enterprise on the part of one of the London dailies to send a certain number of their journals addressed to members of the Army via the new Cologne air service and announce the fact. But no, if these papers went under cover that way, they would appear no longer to be news papers and became " mails." So, out comes what would appear to be the rather misleading notice that " The state ments which have appeared in certain newspapers that arrangements had been_made for the conveyance of these journals from England to the Western Front by the Official Aeroplane Mail Service are incorrect. The service is being entirely utilised for the carriage of mails for the troops." THE question is, was it worth while ? IT sounds a bit drastic that Parliamentary procedure should require from those interested in any particular national subject, a motion for the reduction of this or that Estimate of expenses for the current year, when every nerve is at the same time being strained by the self-same interest member to squeeze, via Parliament, the maximum amount of cash out of the Treasury for the particular object under discussion. Yet this thusness obtains. Hence arises the anomaly that in all probability this week in Parliament during the dis cussion on the Estimates under which the cost of the R.A.F. and Civil aviation comes, some keen friends of aviation will demand the reduction of the amount apportioned to this important asset of the Empire, so as to enable a full dress talk to take place upon the obstructive tactics which seem to prevail in regard to the carrying through of the »«»ns for development of the commercial side of aviation. THURSDAY this week is probably the day for the perpecra- tion, in the case of aerial matters, of this little parliamentary farce. Some flying costumes for ladies, designed by and on view at Selfridge's. 351
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