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MAY 15, 1919 THAT Cleopatra's Needle on the Thames Embankment was not " lowered " through the visits of the Hun Gothas to London, is nothing short of a miracle. As it is, there are sundry raider scars much in evidence on the bronzed Sphinxes at the base of the monument. These are to remain as a public record of the beastliness of the Hun's methods, the London County Council having decided not to obliterate them. The more items of reminder of this description throughout the country, the better. AFGHAN revolutionaries are credited with having the wherewithal to carry on an active campaign in the air and by means of armoured cars on the Indian frontier. This is but an instance of how war by aircraft has taken hold of the minds of the peoples of all nations. Moreover, it is once more a warning as to the ease with which fleets of aircraft can be secretly acquired or built and held in reserve against emer gency. What may be, and probably is, in the minds of the Hun in this direction for the coming future, it is not difficult to measure, and the dissatisfaction of Marshal Foch upon this point in the terms of Peace is likely to be remembered by the next or following generation. In the meantime, it is good hearing to learn that our pilots are not behindhand in taking a hand in demonstrating to the Afghans the practical use of aircraft in border warfare. THERE is to be a reconstruction of an air-raid over London in one of the latest cinema films to be completed, This will be seen presently in Miss Mary Marsh Allen's film, " Forgive Us Our Trespasses." We're just wondering whether part of the motif of this " play " may aim at defining the " rights " and wrongs of the ownership of the air above. The Huns, anyway, were pretty violent trespassers. PRAIRIE flying looks like being a sport having possibilities in the not too far distant future, following the application of the Canadian Pacific Railway for an Air Charter, enabling this great corporation to enter the aerial field of enterprise. Mr. Grant Hall, the Vice-President, is a great enthusiast upon the subject, having regard to the phenomenal develop ment of flying, especially amongst Canadians. Natural landing-places abound on the prairies, according to Mr. Hall, " where there are wide spaces with almost complete absence of the airmen's real enemy : mist and fog, not wind. There, air travelling might be profitable." MORE trouble at the London aircraft factories again. And again it is the same old stunt in which the inefficient and shirking workman seeks to saddle his legitimate share in this world's toil by striking for payment by time, against payment by results. ' That's the stuff to give 'em," say the shirkers, so as to place England once more upon her feet commercially. There's nothing like ensuring successful " re-construction '' of trade by placing it On such a solid foundation of inefficiency as to render it impossible for home industries to compete in the world's affairs. But what do these wonderful economists think will happen when they have driven all the real workers abroad and they are left to " carry on " by themselves for themselves ? To be a fashionable Bishop, it will soon be necessary to supplant the motor-car for visiting outlying districts of the diocese by aeroplane. In New Zealand, according to a report to hand, this development has already materialised. It is the Right Rev. Dr. Cleary, Bishop of Auckland, who has thus set the fashion. Bishop Cleary returned on March 14 from a series of visits by seaplane, to various waterside places on the mountainous and very badly roaded Coromandel Peninsula. Piloted by Mr. Vivian Walsh, of the New Zealand Flying School (Kohimarama, Auckland), in a seaplane with a Hall-Scott engine of 125 h.p., the Bishop did this series of visitations at a height of mainly 1,100 ft., and at a speed varying from 65 to 75 miles per hour. He visited Kuaotunu (68 miles by sea from Auckland), Whitianga in Mercury Bay (90 miles from Auckland), Tairua, made a return trip to Kuaotunu for Confirmation, and flew thence to Coromandel OVER THE ANDES.—On April 4 Lieut. Cortinez crossed the Andes from Santiago (Chile) to Mendoza (Argen tine) and,back, attaining a height of nearly 20,000 ft. The machine he used was one of the " Bristol " monoplanes presented by this country to the Chilian Government 646
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