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1920
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JANUARY I, 1920 A HAPPY NEW YEAR to one and all of the many thousands of readers of FLIGHT. AND grateful thanks to all those well-wishers who sent us along seasonable greetings. Coming as they do from many quarters of the globe, they are a reminder of the host of friends which we number the world throughout. Reciprocation in every sense of the world. " HOLTZENDORFF, the Saviour of Berlin, and other Revela- tions " is the title of a German book by Lieut. Emil Selliger, one time of the Press Section of the German Navy Depart- ment. In an advance notice given by the Berlin Lokalan- zeiger an extract is given from this book purporting to be an account of a conversation between Count Zeppelin and the ex-Kaiser in the Autumn of 1915. Count Zeppelin is represented as having urged a simul- taneous attack by all the German aerial squadrons on England, and particularly on London. To this the ex-Kaiser retorted : " You have already been seven times over London and killed two thousand people (sic) : how many more lives do you want to destroy ? " " Your Majesty," replied Count Zeppelin, " Germany's existence is at stake." But the ex-Kaiser vetoed the plan, saying " You shall not carry out attacks on England. It is sufficient to bomb military objects in the British capital, as hitherto." WE don't think ? N.B.—COUNT ZEPPELIN is dead and " Ich und Gott " is wriggling ever so strenuously at the near advent of his trial at the Bar of Civilisation. He is no doubt blaspheming as blatantly as ever for real "Dutch Courage "—in his favour. SIGNOR D'ANNUNZIO has apparently " flown " from Fiumebefore Christmas, as he said he would, but it was in a British liner. Italy may, therefore, now hope to settle down to realitywithout the help of poetic soaring. theory have a striking testimonial in its favour in the fore- bodings which a Melbourne cable states the father of the late Capt. Howell, the pilot killed on the Australian flight, had of his son's fate. On the evening of the 10th, while Mr. Howell, senior, was conversing with a naval officer, so the story runs, a disused clock in the room ticked in Morse and then fell silent. Mr. Howell was alarmed and immediately associated this as a premonition of some fateful happening to his son. Is there really anything in telepathy, material or ise, after all ? If there is, the supporters of this 1wise other-psychic The First " Lighthouse " at Hounslow Aerodrome Unfortunately, this proved only too real, to the regret of all those who knew and respected the late Capt. Howell. MR. W. WATTS of Blackwater, Hants, when in the days to come, he is asked " What did you do, Daddy, in the Great War," might do worse, whatever else he may have patriotically carried through, than quote the statement made by Viscount Wolmer in Parliament last week when he asked the Under Secretary to the Air Ministry whether he was aware that during 1917 the Government compulsorily acquired a farm of Mr. W. Watts for the purpose of building cottages for the employees of Farnborough Aircraft Factory ; that when they took it HHHHHHHH B H El H H H a H H m a a a a a a a The crew of the Handley Page (type 0-400) which recently flew from London to Warsaw. Capt. Herne is seen standing imme- diately under the nose of the fuselage, and on his left is Capt. McNaught Davis. This is the ma- chine which it was said was chased by Ger- man air guards when flying from Cologne to Berlin a a a H a a a 24
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