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ROMANCE OF THE AIR: GENERAL SEELY'S GLOWING SPEECH.
BOUNDLESS POSSIBILITIES.
General Seely had an enviable tank far a Minister on March 13th-that of talk- ing to the House of Commons on a theme which is still quite fresh. The wonder has not yet gone out of Aying. It has still all the charm of the 'conquest of the impossible: It is full of secrets and wild surprises.. There is romance-as well as money-in it Fancy expatiating on
the sightless couriers of the air" when one might have had to be talking of Sinking Funds, or Housing conditions
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Scotland, or Electoral Reform:
WISEMAN LTD.
TEA DANCES
on
Tuesday, May 6th,
and
Thursday, May 8th.
·D. M. GOODALL,
MANAGER,
General Seely spoke proudly, as became TELEPHONE 407.
a soldier, and humbly, as became the intimate associate of the secrets of great (men of science and-perhaps better stil
as the confidant of the brave yousk pilots [who were, last November 13th," the "
masters of the air.""
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Godowns of the Hongkong and Heyloco Godoid Company, Elaited honen and/or from the wharve
the wharves, delfrers may be obtiliod.
Goods not cloned by the 8th May, at will be subject to rent.
Five years ago, as he reminded the House, he was Minister for War, and asking, rather uurvously, for a million for Aviation. Many will remember his old duels with Mr. Joynson-Hicks and a few other far-seeing enthusiasts One seems to recall a far-off episode, when General Scely was pressed to say whether the British Army had a secre of aero planes which would really fly, and he rose, and bowed stiffly, and said, On my honour, yes. A score of aeroplanes; and last year Great Britain was building"
month, and. 4,000 a
was spending £200,000,000 a year on the Royal Air Force! There were six quadros in August, 1814, there were 200 when the war stopped; and the peace establish- mant is to be 102 squadrons, with 5,300 to be left in the Godown where they officers and 31,000 men. General Seely will be examined on 5th May, 1918, at 10 4 *. Claims against the Steamer must be presented told the House that be was arranging within 10 days of arrival, ofberwine ikey will to pablish a record of work of the Airzot be recognised." Force during the war It ought to be. No Fire Insurance will be affected by us in written by a poet, with a quill of the way site whshilar, dh only bird that can fly open-eyed into the Bifof taking #iba confüreigned by face of the sun. In the last four years JARDINE, MATHESON & C., Dro, there have been between 40,000 and 50,000, desperate battles in the air; 8,000 enemy Hongkong. May 1st 1919.
(714 airmen have been shot down; 2,800 of our own airmen have been reported miss- ing" It is a story for an epic. And yet | 'tis odds that a lyric would tell it best.
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Before turning to the sheer prose of figures and cost, let us just indicate a few of the other boundless wonders at o which General Seely hinted. Consider what, the aeroplane can do in the lands of the sun, where there are no fogs and mists The British, Political Officer at Baghdad can now do in two days with an aeroplane what would take him two months to accomplish without. extremely probable that the mails from Cairo to fadia will be carried by bar. The planes are ready to do it, if wanted. The Postmaster-General is. an enthusiasthey must peate an Import Park) pad ty tic supporter of the project, and General the superintendent of fagrts and Esporte Seely spoke as though a favourable deci-longkong, belőre Bills of sion were almost certain. Three survey, poduzeni ned. ing parties are now engaged in mapping out the best air routes from Cairo to the Cape, aud few can doubt that there will be an Atlantic route before the world fie much older. General Seely drew a delightful picture of the possibilities be- more the flying-boats, which will have good landing all the way from mouth to No Chill Be Admitid ng iba Good Fource up the great navigable rivers of are left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining sadelivered after May 8, 1918, will be the world-Nile, Amazon, and Crinock.mbject to mak..... A flying-bout which carries maili may No Fire Insurance has been effected. carry samples. Puck will turn bagman. Bill of Ladbygwill be weterans ZENA VÝ Bir Charles Farmus, again, has been
SHEWAN, TOMRE. & Co. making General Seely open his eyes in
Monday - Agents wonder at images of gigantic airships-- Hongkong, May 1st, 1915.”
1715, the greater the length the more easily Driven-which shall travel at unimagin- THE pable speed. There is an aeroplane"now in course of experimental construction,
bf vast dimensions, with eight Rolls-
Royce engines, which, if its performance!
All broken, shaded, and damaged Goods weyte be laff in the Codewa, whare, they, wil, þ mised on WDAY, May 7th, 1919, at 10 AM.
a fit ein khá more be presented within Firs Stowmar sarrival hore, after which as they not be recognised, with
PENINSULAB · AND ORIENTAL STEAM-- NAVIGATION 00.
porresponds with the ideas of its ingeni-STEAM FOR STRAITS, CEYLON, bus author, will attain a speed quite *** BOMBAY, EGYPT,MEDITER- andreamt of!! Poor Pegasus! What BARANEAN PORTS and
was bis poor one borse-power to this?
It turns even "Elijah's Chariot into a backney carriage.
LONDON.
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING ISSUED P02) BiriYLA AMERICAN, CONTIKKEWAL, And South AYRICAN PORTS.
them. The secret was sought in vain dure from
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And yet all this is but the first infancy bf the new science. These are but ourt first halting steps to unknown altitudes at unguessed paces. Even within the last E Homeward Mail Steamer few days a wonderful secret has been
"DILWARA” revealed. Directional wireless"—this carrying His Majesty's 'Mail, will be is the true jargon of science--has been despatched from the port About MAY brought nearer perfection. The Air 20, 1918, taking Cargo for the above Forta. Force, now has a telephone instrument Passenger accommonsdon in the combecting
secured before which can both send messages and receive vessel when
depar
and ing the war. The Germana were the first r
for Italy, France to discover an instrument which could and Lotion (under arrangement) will be
conveyed by this
and there transities and this Steamer proceeding to PALACE HOTE KOWLOON. CUTLER, PALMER & CO. either send or receive. General Seely
Bombay
to the said. that we knew their code and read Corner of Haiphong and Hankow
their messages, and sent our machines toying "Steamer for intercept theirs. But now the same, in Faris will be received at the Office until strument will both give and take. An 37, the day before sailing. The contents aerial tape machine will probably follow. and value of all packages am required. Viator will be able to follow the factus For further particulars, mailing dates, etc, tions of the Stock Exchange at an alti apply to tude of 12,000ft above mid-Atlantic. The AUKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO., wings of the morning will be ruffled with
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All this was most fascinating, and it seemed strange that barely one hundred members thought it worth while to-turn into the Chamber and listen. Moreover, equal benefit to the other, as, for example, many of those who were present were the money spent on lands and buildings, obviously chiefy concerned with the items aerodromes, meteorological stations, on the bill. The estimates are enormous equipment, research, etc. General Seely £66,500,000. But they are not quite so gave an admirably clear, account of the formidable as they look, for £39,000,000 manifold duties of the new department, will be non-recurrent expenditure. The and, in speaking of the limitless possibi- recurring expenditure is made up as lities of development in flying, said that follows:
Personnel
£18,000,000
Technical Equipment. 2,000,000
Lands and Building
Miscellaneous ........................
Research
Experimenternatio
2,000,000 2,500,000 2,000,000
General Sykes'a Civil
Ciril 500,000
Departinent 800,000.
it was quite possible that air forces might render all the armies and navies of the world obsolete. He spoke also of the special difficulties in the way of demo bilising the officers and men of the Air Force, whose training will not specially fit them for civilian posts, and he showed that a fairly generous scheme of gratai-. ties on demobilisation has been devised
It would seem at first sight as though for the cadets of whom there were no
the amount to be spent on military fewer than 25,000 when the armistice was aviation were out of all proportion to signed The Minister's speech lasted for that which is to be spent on civil avia an hour, and in the course of the ensuing tion, in connection with the department discussion General Bocly received many recently set up. But in reality much of well-deserved compliments, as well as the expenditure on the one will be of much friendly criticism and valuable
(Continued at foot of next column.) suggestions-Daily Telegraph
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