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1919 - 1025.PDF
JULY 31, 1919 liH FROM T&E FOUR UhUDS (^g^^^^O^M^^^^gM A WELL-DESERVED recognition of the services rendered during air-raids has been made by Southwark, the Mayor of that Borough having last week presented 91 medals to Volunteers. ILFORD has a local War-trophies museum of its own, and the local air-raid syren is one of the honoured items which has found a resting-place amongst the evidences collected of Hun beastliness. IF all the theatrical setting is necessary, which has accom panied a mid-air wedding in New York last week-end, most folk will probably think it better to remain single. That any sane people, or any decent cleric, can be found to par ticipate as principals in absurdities of this kind must be attributed to the aftermath of the effects of war. As a scientific stunt of the Barnum order this most recent marriage bv wireless telephony, supplemented by megaphone obbligato for the benefit of the bride and bridegroom's guests, the affair might pass muster. But as a serious and solemn ceremony the sooner this sort of fooling is rendered illegal the better. FOOLING of this type is hardly likely to obtain much vogue in Switzerland, where the latest enactments of this close- borough Federal Council not only places somewhat penal responsibilities upon all foreign aviators, but positively forbids " stunts " of any kind. One comfort, at best Switzer land hardly lends itself to flying as a pastime, in the ordinary- sense. IN Paris no less than four Commissions are about to get busy estimating and arranging compensation for the damage suffered by the Gay City's inhabitants from bombardments by aeroplanes and long-range guns during the War. There this sort of trouble is treated as National, and the Huns are being called upon to liquidate the bill. Wonder what is being done this side of the streak, in the same direction ? FROM the scene of operations in the region of the Northern Dvina the Bolshies military report of July 25 tells the same old, old story that " an enemy aeroplane dropped 17 bombs without causing any damage." We only hope the laying of these 17 eggs effected, relatively, as much damage as the hundred or so of bombs dropped in London, etc., did, which officially were at the time reported as resulting in " no damage." NOTHING like getting in early ! The first strike of aerial mail pilots—male ones^has taken place and been settled. It. appears it was started on July 25 in New York because the Post Office Department refused to reinstate two pilots discharged for refusing to ascend recently in a fog, the New York—Chicago aerial mail being the service most affected. It was brought to a temporary happy conclusion the next " Fligkt " Copyright. OUR FLEET IN THE THAMES ON VICTORY DAY : A view, from an aeroplane, of a portion of the Fleet off Southend, and showing the town of Southend and the Pier. IO27
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