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case which I must follow. In that case Mr. Justice Avory was of opinion that fortune-telling was of itself an offence. I must say I agree with him ; but I must follow the decision of the Court, Justices Darling and Sankey, who held that evidence of belief on the part of the medium must be received and acted upon if believed. I am absolutely satisfied that she believes she has these powers. Whether I believe it or not does not matter ; so I shall dismiss the summons." A propos fortune tellers, according to official statistics quoted by the Petit Parisien there are in Paris 35,000 clair voyants, fortune-tellers, and seers of various kinds, who, on the whole, do a very good business. These days, almost numerous enough to start a fortune-tellers' union. WHILST our Post Office authorities are boggling over giving aerial post a reasonable trial in actual practice, an aeroplane object lesson is recorded by Mr. Percy G. Donald, of tipper Thames Street, of not only the postal service being bettered, but of our wonderful telegraph service being beaten to a frazzle. Here is what Mr. Donald writes :— " I have just returned from the Balkans to find out the exact details of an incident connected with aeroplane service in comparison with the telegraph. " On leaving London I found I had left the keys of my baggage behind. I telephoned through to London for an endeavour to be made to send them on by aeroplane, as I was leaving Paris the same night for Rumania. " The keys duly arrived and were delivered to me within four hours from the time at which they left London, together with a letter stating that my firm had ' telegraphed me that the keys had been despatched.' " The telegram announcing that the keys had left arrived in Paris late on the following day ! " Surely this question of telegraphic delays is one which might suitably be dealt with at once by the Postmaster- General in connection with the aeroplane service " By the use, we will say, of the telegraphic messenger service with district offices in London and in Paris, it would be possible to send letters to Paris at a nominal charge, ensure that they would get through within six hours of the despatch from London, and thereby in turn considerably relieve the telegraphic department, which apparently is incapable of OCTOBER 16, 1919 carrying out the service which its acceptance of telegraphic payment involves." A PRETTY sequel to the Transatlantic voyage of R 34 was the reception by the Queen at Buckingham Palace last week of Miss Lizzie Chestnut, a Glasgow worker upon the airship at Inchinnan. Miss Chestnut, who was presented to Her Majesty by Lady Sybil Grant, handed to the Queen, on behalf of her fellow-workers, a replica of the figure-head of R 34 in the form of an aluminium shield, bearing the Lion of Scotland and the airship's motto, mounted on mahogany. ANOTHER pleasant incident and well judged recognition likely to help in the estimate of the duties of life, also stands to be recorded last week. In Ravenscourt Park, Hammer smith, the Mayor, Alderman H. Foreman, M.P., presented 20 silver medals to boy scout buglers who sounded the " Clear " after air raids in the borough. All IT is with regret we hear that it has been necessary for Lady Sybil Grant's medical advisers to order her complete rest, even to receiving no correspondence. Lady Sybil's strenuous airship work at the Admiralty during the War, followed by her great efforts to ensure success to the Airship Exhibition at Princes' Galleries, is no doubt responsible for this result, which we hope may be but of a very temporary character GENERAL LUDENDORFF, in "My War Memories, 1914-18," just published by Hutchinsons, lets in some light upon Hun developments of attacks by aircraft, which fortunately never developed, upon Paris and London. In this book it emerges that in the summer of 1918 the German chemists had placed in the hands of the Headquarters Staff bombs of deadlier potence than have ever been devised by the destructive wits of man. The only reason why these devices of the devil were not employed against the French and English capitals was that their use would not have saved the already beaten German army, and would have meant attacks on German towns by the airmen of the Allies. General Ludendorff, surveying the prospect of the fearful fire-bombs in August, 1918, writes :— " Our position was now so serious that G.H.Q. could nol hope that air raids on London and Paris would force the enemy to make peace. Permission was, therefore, refused for the use of a particularly effective incendiary bomb, expressly 3 H H H B Two types Hun fighters. the top D.F.W.C.V. h.p. Benz, H m oi At the 200 and below the Roland (L.F.G.) Cll 160 h.p. Mercedes, both two-seaters E E B u H B E B B B 5? fci B E E E E •M E E H E •* E HEBE BBBB 1376
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