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JANUARY 22, 1920 and are permitted to retain their rank :—S. N. S. Kennedy (caused bywounds) ; Jan. 5. V. E. R. Bolton (caused by wounds) ; Jan. 7. Sec. Lieut. H. P. Johnson relinquishes his cotnmn. on account of ill-health,and is permitted to retain his rank ; Jan. 7. Sec. Lieut. A. Harris is cashiered by sentence of a General Court-martial;Dec. 12, 1919. The notification in the Gazette of Nov. 4, 1919, concerning Lieut. A. E.Burton is cancelled. Notification in the Gazette of Nov. 25, 1919, to stand. The notification in the Gazette, of Nov. 4, 1919, concerning Sec. Lieut. (Ho n.Capt.) J. H. McCullock is cancelled. The notification in the Gazette of Sept. 9, 1919, concerning Lieut. G. A. B.Wheldon is cancelled. The notification in the Gazette of July 22, 1919, concerning Lieut. A. O.Roberts is cancelled. Medical Branch Flying Officers to be Flight Lieutenants.—D. Cromie ; Oct. 25, 1919. J. B.Barrett, C. H. Young ; Dec. 16, 1919. Royal Aeronautical Society THE next meeting of the Royal Aeronautical Society will be held at the Royal Society of Arts,, on Wednesday evening, February 4th, when Squadron-Leader J. E. M. Pritchard, O.B.E., will read a paper on " Rigid Airships and their Development." The chair will be taken at 8 p.m. by Air- Commodore E. M. Maitland, C.M.G., D.S.O., A.F.C. Members, and particularly students of the Society, are reminded that the Library at 7, Albemarle Street, W. i, is now open from 2 till 5 p.m. on Saturday afternoons. Summer Time in France and Algeria THE Air Ministry announces that the following Notice to Airmen (No. 7) has been issued :— Summer Time in France and Algeria is to be introduced at midnight January 31, February 1, 1920, and will continue until midnight October 23, 1920. The England-Australia Flight. THE latest news with regard to the Blackburn Kangaroo, being piloted by Capt. Geo. H. Wilkins, is that he is still stranded at Suda Bay and that he is endeavouring to obtain a new engine from Cairo. Lieut. Mackintosh and Lieut. Parer, of the Australian Flying Corps, who left Hounslow on a De H. 9 on January 9, arrived at St. Raphael on January 19. They left Lyons at 1145 a.m., and arrived at 3.20 p.m. The clouds were low and conditions bad as far as Avignon. Rhyl Wants More Flying. RHYL evidently realises that flying is a desirable attrac-tion, as, at the last meeting of the Urban District Council, it was reported that the Entertainments Committee had adver-tised for tenders for the sole use of the flying rights on the foreshore for next season. H.P. London-Paris and Brussels Air Services. ON the Handley Page London-Paris Air Service between September 2, 1919 and January 15, 1920, 652 passengers and 17,030 lbs. of goods have been carried, the total distance covered being 37,190 miles. Two hundred and fifty-five passengers and 25,916 lbs. of freight have been carried on the H.P. London-Brussels Air Service during the period extending between September 26, 1919, and January 15, 1920, a distance of 26,353 miles having been covered. On January 13 amongst the eight passengers flown to Paris in a Handley-Page commercial aeroplane was an old gentleman aged 73, who thoroughly enjoyed the journey, which was carried out in wind and rain. For Flying Officers Visiting New York. THE London Committee of the English-Speaking Union has received the following communication from Mr. Laurence L. Driggs, the President of the American Flying Club, 11, East 38th Street, New York City :— " All British aviators visiting New York will be most cordially welcomed at the American Flying Club. They will find full club accommodation, and will meet representa- tives from practically every British squadron on the front. The British Air Attache and his staff are already members of the club. We shall try to make every Englishman feel at home here." The French Mission in Argentina DURING the month of December the French Aviation Mission in Argentina carried out 33 trips from Buenos Ayres to Montevideo and back. The number of passengers trans- ported by air totalled 312, the aggregate flying time was 160 hours, while the total distance flown was 15,000 miles. During a flight from Bellavista aerodrome to Lima late on January 19 the French Lieut. Nehabrier was killed and Col. Sqdn. Ldr. E. G. R. Lithgow (Maj., R.A.M.C.) relinquishes his temp.R.A.F. commn. on return to Army duty ; Jan. 1. Flight-Lieut. E. Hefierman (Surg.-Lieut., R.N.) relinquishes his temp.R.A.F. commn. on return to Naval duty ; Jan. i. (Four officers transfd. to the Unemployed List.)Memoranda Pilot Officers to be Flying Officers—D. J. Walker; Oct. 8, 1919. H. E.Crowcroft ; Dec. 10, 1910. (Four officers transfd. to the Unemployed List.) CorrectionsThe following correct names and descriptions of the following are as now stated, and not as published in the Gazette of Dec. 30, 1919 and Jan. 1, p. 5,Lieut.-Col. (Temp. Maj.-Gen.) Henry Francis Edward Freeland, C.B., D.S.O., M.V.O., R.E.; Francis Dundas Couchman, Esq., M.I.C.E., Member RailwayBoard; James Algernon Stevens. Esq., O.B.E., Imperial Customs Service, Chief Collector of Customs, Rangoon, Burma. de Baudiez, Chief of the Mission, fatally injured, owing to their Caudron biplane suddenly falling from a height of about 250 ft. An Aviette Height Prize. To encourage experimenters with man-propelled flying machines, a prize of 500 fr., which may be increased to 700 fr., has been offered in France by M. Georges Dubois- Lecour. The winner will be the rider of an Aviette, who first succeeds in getting his machine to a height of 10 metres above the ground ; at present the " record " is 8 metres. The Rome-Tokyo Flight. THE small Caproni, which is acting as scout in the Rome- Tokyo flight, with Lieuts. Scavini and Bona Lumi as pilots, left Salonika at 9.30 a.m. on January 12 and arrived at Adalia without mishap at 3,30 p.m. One of the large Caprini triplanes of 900 h.p., in charge of Lieuts. Garrone and Abba, left Rome at noon on Sunday and reached Gioia del Colle, near Taranto, the first stage of the Rome-Tokyo flight. A sum of .£7,000 has been voted by the Japanese Govern- ment for the entertainment of the Italian airmen flying from Rome to Tokyo. From Fiume to Paris. TOWARDS the end of the afternoon of January 18 an Italian S.V.A. (220 h.p. S.P.A.) machine, piloted by Lieut. Carminiani, of d'Annunzio's squadron, who had left Fiume at 7.30 in the morning, passed over Paris and let loose a shower of green leaflets. They proved to contain a message from d'Annunzio to the " Latin brothers " and included an attack on M. Clemenceau. Reaching Le Bourget at 3 p.m., the pilot accomplished the 750-miles flight in 7 J hours, flying via Venice, Turin, Chambery Lyons, and Dijon, crossing the Alps at a height of 2 \ miles. Austrian Seaplanes for U.S. Navy THE United States Navy now has two Austrian seaplanes which have been secured by the commander of the United States Naval forces in the Eastern Mediterranean, Rear- Admiral Philip Andrews, by arrangement with the Italian Government. One of the seaplanes has a 12-cylindered 450 h.p. Austro-Daimler motor, while the other has a six- cylindered 250 h.p. Hiero motor. Aerial Services in Switzerland " Ax> ASTRA " is the name of a new company formed by ex-military aviators in Switzerland to carry on com- mercial aviation. At first a number of waterplanes will be put into commission at Zurich, Locarno, Bienne, and Thun, but later on, machines will be provided for Lausanne, Geneva, Lugano, Lucerne, Romanshorn, Neuchatel, and Rorschach. Eventually it is proposed to start aeroplane services for various towns that do not border on lakes or rivers that are of sufficient size to be used by hydro-aeroplanes. Seeing the Alps by Aeroplane SEVERAL flights from Zurich to St. Moritz have recently been made by the aviator Comte, carrying passengers who have enjoyed the novel experience of seeing the mountains from above. Comte is going on to Gstaad for a flying week, and other winter resorts are likely to follow suit as the demand for passenger flights at the higher altitudes is greatly increasing. Police Aeroplanes over Berlin. As a sequel to the riots in Berlin last week, low-flying police aeroplanes were engaged in patrolling over the roofs of the city on January 15, watching for an attempt to renew the Spartacist disturbances on the anniversary of the death of Rosa Luxemburg. 113
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