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Flight, July 28, 1921 AIRCRAFTBNGINEEP. J^fRSHIPS First Aero Weekly in the World Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devote* to th« Interests, Praetiee, an* Prog ret. of Aerial Locomotion ui Tr&aaport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB Of THE UNITED KINQDOM No. 657 (No. 30, Vol. XIII.) JULY 28, 1921 ["Weekly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. Flight The. A ircraft Engineer and A irships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.a. Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 1828 Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free United Kingdom .. 30s. +d. Abroad .. .. 33s. od.» These rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnormalconditions and to increases in postage rates • European subscriptions must be remitted in British currency CONTENTS Editorial Comment PAGB Aircraft in African Warfare 50I The Airships .. .. .. .. .. ,. ,, j02 German Aviation .. ., .. .. ,, .. ,. jo2 The Channel Services 5o4 Parcels Post to Paris 5O4 Victoria Street, Westminster .. . .. .. .. .. 503 The Remington-Burnelli " Airliner " Biplane . 505 London—Continental Services 507 The Present Position of German Aviation 508 The New D sert Air Route to Mesopotamia 8 The Sperry " Commercial" Wing 509 Croydon Terminal Aerodrome .. .. .. .. .. .. 510 Royal Aeronautical Society Official Notices .. .. .. .. 51 j National Physical Laboratory Report .. .. .. .. .. 511 Air Ministry Notices 5I2 Airisms from the Four Winds 5i3 Royal Air Force 5I4 The First American Dirigible Line : By Lieut. C. A. Tinker .. .. .515 Some Aircraft Disposal" Disposals" .. .. .. .. .. 515 In Parliament .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 513 Side-winds .. .. .. ,. .. .. .. .. .. 516 DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list i July 29-81 Jacques Schneider Cup, Venice Aug. 27 ... Entries Close lor Conpe Deutsch Sept. 4-11 Brescia Races Pulitzer Trophy, Detroit, U.S.A. Gordon Bennett Balloon Race Sept. 10 ... Sept. 18 ... Btpt. 25- Oet 2 Oct. 1 ... »OT. 12-27 Aero Exhibition, Prague Conpe Deutsch de la Meurthe Paris Aero Salon Aircraft in African Warfare MOST interesting report has just been issued by the War Office in connection with operations carried out by the Egyptian Army against the Garjak Nuers, a tribe inhabiting the Soudan on the western borders of Abyssinia. The reasons for these operation? being undertaken do not here matter, though it may be said that it had become necessary to punish this tribe for raids on other more peaceable people:- and to make the punishment severe enough to deter them in future. The Garjak Nuers inhabit a stretch of country of about 4,000 square miles, and can put into the field a force of 10,000 fighting men armed with spears, bows and arrows, and a certain number of rifles obtained from across the Abyssinian border. Their country is exceedingly difficult for offensive operations, being mostly black cotton soil, with a growth of grass sometimes reaching ten feet in height, while it is copiously intersected by watercourses. When it was decided to open the operations against this tribe, two small columns were employed of a strength of under a thousand men between them. Two gunboats co-operated with one column on the Sobat and Baro rivers, while two aeroplanes, manned by R.A.F. personnel, accompanied each column. In his report on the operations, the Sirdar says, after dealing with these against certain sections of the tribe : " It was apparent that troops could no longer be usefully employed against an enemy, who, after his first defeat, adopted a purely passive resistance under protection afforded by the swamps and easy access into Abyssinian territory, so the Royal Air Force detachment was ordered to systemati- cally bomb and gun their cattle camps. The success that attended these aircraft operations was immediate and decisive, and the Garjaks, recognising to what dangers they were exposed, speedily commenced negotiations for submission. By the beginning of June—the operations began in January— practically four-fifths of the Garjaks had submitted and paid tribute to the Government. Sheikh Mut Dang, with a small portion of the remainder of his tribe, alone remained hostile and insubmissive. . . . Before closing this report I should like to emphasise the importance of the part played by " H " unit of the Royal Air Force during these operations. In spite of the extreme difficulty of observation in this country, they provided Major Bacon with valuable information as regards the movements of the enemy, and their cattle, and
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