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AEROPLANE OR AIRSHIP. THEIR PLACES IN COMMERCE.
TUESDAY, MAY 6TH,
A MARTYE TO SCIENCE | DISCOVERER OF THE INFLUENZA Į
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in the case of Fiume, when they deny the application of these rights in Dal-
atia. They say that the Italian right' ta-Dalmatia must be judged by the për- centage of Italians"thère at present, and A delegation from the municipality of not by a reference to the historical past. Fiume recently presented a memorandum But in the case of Fiume, where the pre- to the Peace Conference in Paris, setting sent population is preponderatingly Italian, they claim that the right of rulership must be decided, not by the
FANTASTIC ARGUMENTS, present, but by the history of the past.
[BY HAJDE C.. C. TURNER.)
We recently publishëd an announcement While the first successful twb-engine. heavy bombing aeroplane was actually of the death of Major H. Graco Gibeen, being built, a well-known soronautical A.M.C., at the No 2 Stationary Hos engineer expressed his conviction that, Fital, Abbéville (saya the Times). We are apart from unforsecable discoverice, the now able to state that this officer died a
marger to science and almost at the hour forth the desire of the majority of the limit of size for an aeroplane was A machine having a margin of carrying when, in company with two other work. Citizens of Fiume to be united to Italy. capacity of about one ton, and that aeroers Major Bowman, Canadian" Army The memorandum quetes several docu- planes of an all-on weight of two or three tons would be the exception. Without going into the technical arguments pur forward in support of this opinion, which, at the time, and from the point of view taken, no doubt had some justi- fication, it may simply be recorded that machines of twice the sire indicated are now in common use.
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At this moment there is supposed to be a struggle going on between the air ship and the aeroplane, and aeronautical experts are said to be ranging in opposite That, however, depends upon
"export."
There by an. what is meant are" indood, advocates of both divisions; but most of these advocates are either eficial or private persons with interests at stake An export capable of forming independent opinions would scarcely take zides in what is at present a rather empty Controversy.
He would first make sure of his facts, and then he would point out that there are clear fields of activity. He would not compare the great airship of future we are told it is to have of 10,000,000 cubic feet of gas. -witty
the big acroplane of today. He would find out what is being done in the wy of big aeroplane design, and what we may expect will take the air within a reasonable period. He would be very cautious about that 10,000,000 cubic feet airship, which at present is altogether speculative, and would prefer to deal with the types of about a quarter that size, which are the immediately forth- corning items in the British airship pro- gramme, and are rather smaller than the newest Zeppelin. And he would, soon perceive that the big aeroplanes of
to day are to be greatly surpassed in size by machines that will be ready by the end of this year or the beginning of next. These machines are altogether outside the limits set by the authority referred to above. The statement made the other day that the latest Handley-Page machine, with its span of 1271t, represents the maximum size-limit of the commercial aeroplano"
is nonsensical,
Medical Corps, and Captain Cannor, Australian Army Medical Corps, he had completed the discovery of what is very probably indeed the causative germ of this influenza epidemic.
'MAJOR DIBSON'S EAGERNESS.
104
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simply an arithmetical trick; for if one were allowed to argue in this way the most fantastic conclusions might be arrived at,
The next grounds which the Jugo ments, which offer clear and authentic proof of the justice of the claim that is
establish their right to Fiume NгG put forward. But this claim is strenu. Slave put forward in attempting to
Life
try to transform" the ter... They sy deulen by two Jugo-ins, who are of an artificial and forced, obarae owen carrying on a campagn" in
character of the national census by add- Dis fress for the purpose of vatud-
ing to is a number that represents the aning their own right to me. A preliminary note regarding this germutter calls for a thorough
Stavs in the small town of Sussak; which tral investigation, because it involves not belongs administratively to Croatia, was published by these doctors on Decome the principle or nationality an- and is divided from Fiume by a valley ber 14th, 1914, in the British Medical sustract sense, but as a queitner and a river. It is clear that this is Journal, and thus Major Graeme Gibson's uitect retusar to hear the explicit voice work takes precedence over later publica-eta dennite body of citizens who claim tions. At the time, however, the proof of that the lot of their city must be decided It has according to the wishes of the majority the discovery was not complete., now been completed, death farnishes
As we understand; of the inhabitants. and Majar part of the evidence is eagerness and enthusiasm led him to work so hard that Le Raally fell a victim to the very viru- lent strains of the garm with which he was experimenting. He himself caught the inhuenza, and pasumonia fellowed.
The germ belongs to the order of filter: passers and by method. It is reported that monkeys have been infected with it quite easily, and have developed attacks producing small hemorrhages in the lungs a soil quite suitable for the reception of the The chain of evidencs pneumococotis.
Further, thus seems to be very strong. we understand that the germ closely re sembles that described by Captain Wilson in the British Medical Journal a few weeks ago. Thus Captain Wilson's work seems to confirm the work of Major Graeme Gibson and his colleagues.
ARMY-RESEARCH WORK.
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The third argument advanced by the Un what grounds, then, does, the claim Jugo-Slay pretenders is that the Croa of these citizens rest In the first place, tian possession of Fiume is necessary in order that Croatia may have an outlet their clarms are put forward in accord- ance with the principis of the national to the Adriatic. Now this argument is signs or self-determination. The Italians based on an entirely imaginary supposi- or Fiume point to the tact that they tian; for Croatia does not need Fiume compact and preponderating in order to have an outlet to the Adria- majority in the city. Even if we take tie. Outside of Fiume Croatia possesses the Hungarian census of 1010 as a guide in the Adriatic 150 kilometres of const the justineation of this claim is immed-line, where the Italians have not claim
In this stretch of territory lately apparent. But before consideringed, nor will they claim, any right to the agures given in the census of 1910 it possession. will be necessary to call attention to the there are at least seven outlets to the circumstances in which that census was
sea. There is the Bay of Baccari, with KAM
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the ports of Baccart and Portoré. Eur- taken. For several years previously the ther south there is the port of Cirquen- izza. which has a very important local Magyar Government had been waging a ruthless war against the Italian element coasting trade; and south of Cirquenizza are the ports of Segna, San Giorgio, in Fiume, the object being to weaken that element as much as possible and Jablanaz, and Carlopago. The Bay of stamp out its preponderating influence. Biccari is of such great importance that In this campaign all sorts of measures Napoleon considered it capable of be It is interesting to note that this work, were adopted, the most notorious being coming our of the great military ports which has nad such tatal consequences for tnost employed by Count Wickenberg, in 'the Adriatic. Indeed, he himself be- This work gan the work of preparing it to serve one of the party, has been conducted by then Governor of Fiume.
Segna must be looked three Army doctora, a member of the reached its culmination in the famous that purpose.
sono incident. That incident may be upon as the genuine patural outlet for British forces, a member of the Canadian,
The tunen as a good example of the methods Croatin on the Adriatic. It has a vast and a member of the Australian. directors of the Medical Service in France vogue. In order to compromise the basin, and could be easily connected at deserve the greatest credit, we learn, for nanonat party ei Fume and give the Ogulin with the Central Croatian rail- police a pretext for taking up the work way, which rucs down from Zagabria to the splendid support they have given these workers, while the Medical Re
and expulsion of the the sen. This would be an immense sav., repression search Committee, working with the Army authorities, has rendered invaluable help
ing of distance, because Ogulin is about Nor is this the only direction in which
forty kilometres nearer Segna than science has placed the public in its debt
Fiume,
That Fiume is not specially & Croatian There are machines of 5,000 h. p. actually with regard to influenza. Recently it was
port is shown by the direction and deve In 1912 for on the stocks, not designed by cranks, observed that persons working at
lopment of its traffic. but the projects of famous firms, which works seemed to possess a degree of While it
example, its import and export trade In that "are making ready to comply with the immunity from the disease.
amounted to 3,629,183 tons. demand for Trans-Atlantic travel facili. raged around them they themselves cacap
At the same time This was part of the policy that reign- sum-total the Croatian trade represent ties, and intend these craft to carry com- ed in large measure.
ined only 4 per cent. In 1868, when Fiume fortably from sixty to 100 passengers it was noted that in a certain room of aed at the time of the census of 1810.
was still united to Croatia, its traffic, that safety and regularity that alone munitions factory influenza did not order to make that census tell as far as would justify the outlay of capital in develop, though persons werking in the possible against the Italian element, the scarcely amounted to 180,000 tons. But volved. And all this work is going on if other roome got it in numbers.
gures were cooked and falsified in such when it was detached from Croatia and spite of some uncertainty as to the analysis of the air in these places way as to be very disproportionately had regained its autonomy its commerce ditions on which commercial aviation made, and it was found that this air will be conducted. Apart from the hectic contained a concentration of fumes of in favour of the non-Italian elementa. increased 2,000 per cent within a space Yet even the cooked Egures give a com- of forty years. Therefore, as an Adria- projects of some concerns, aviation is sulphurous acid,
pact majority to the Italians. Out of tic part Fiume is only of small-import calmly confident of the future, although
STRAM CHAMBERS,
a population of 80,000, in round num- ance in regard to Croatian trade, the its developments at first may be retarded.
This and much previous work led to the bers, the Italians are shown to number main bulk of its trade being dependent The supposed struggle between the air setting up of steam chambers similar to 28,000, the Slavs (Slovenes, Creats, and on countries which do not come within ship and the seropiane for Aurvival and
those which, thanks to the work of the Serba) 15,000, the Magyars 5,000, and the confines laid down for the future unrest are inking capitalMedical Research Committee, had been there are 3,000 citizens of various other Jugo-Blav State extremely shy, naturally and rightly so; employed to disinfect carriers of
From all these considerations, ita po- nationalities. not all to be re and circumstance
The Jugo-Slav agitators" claim that pulation, ita Eistory, and the character gretted provided the time of waiting becerebro-spinal fever. The results, we wisely employed. But there is a debit learn, have been fully up to expectations the Croatian history of Fiume embodies of its commerce, it is quite clear that side to the account, and that is the danger any opinion
so far, though it is early as yet to express the rights of the Cronts su possess the there is only one principle on which the of handicapping the industry in this
Une hopes that the moral will not be city. It was dominated in turn by the problem of Fiume can be solved. That country, and of freezing out some of the missed by the President of the Local Archbishop of Padena, the Bishop of principle is the right of self-determina- most promising, enterprises of private Government Board. There is no reason Pola, the Lords of Daino, the Lords of tion which belongs to the Italian inhabit juventors and small brms. Already ons why disinfecting stations should not be Walsce, and also by some Cront lords. antas of the city. heary of the
from this country set up for the public at large, where the The Emperora of Austria, who subse of talent seeking
epartare abroad. In the Royal Air Force itself benefit of this new method might be quently became masters of it. always
It is probably the
considered it as Д corpus separatum) of the disperial of talent, both in the obtained at small cost. aeroplane and the airship divisions, which best method of prevention which has ye And Charles VI., the last Habsburg]
been discovered.
ruler, explicitly recognised its auto-
In 1778 Maria Theresa
incorporated it
labour.
BIGGER MACHINES COMING.
Ger-
will set the clock back seriously. gay, we may be sure, will make one of her first cares the consolidation of the
י.
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An
italian element, & hom was exploded in Count Wickenberg's garden, and im mediately the Italian party was accused But on investigation it of conspiracy. was found that the bomb had been placed in the garden by the paid agents of the police,
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nomy.
-FALSE STATISTICE.
1.A
WORLD'S KEGENERATION.
nautical engineers, deserves a trial. It Hight. Further, have to compete is very autonomy, and that Italian should be war," but he could not say that the four
RISHOP'S FIVE POINTS,
Speaking at the annual meeting of the technical. progress” achieved during the power for power, the smaller amount of with Hangary, as a Croatian city, to East London Church Fund, at the Man war, and will retain a hold on her best head-resistance contributing to this or gether with Croatia. Against thing sion House, on March 11th, the Bishop engineers and inventora,
this division there is no expense of sero people of Fiame protested, claiming SOME NEW IDEAS.
drome maintenance; and the sea being that their city should become part of the of London said we had got to make up There is in London an Australian aero- one huge serodrome, without hedges, Hungarian State an independent our minds that we really meant whst we said during the war. We then said: plans design that arrived too late for the trees, and houses, the air-boat is under entity and not
as part of Croatia. Far, but in the opinion of many aero necessity to maintain high altitudes Therefore, they demanded that it should will have different world after the If only God will give us victory we the speed of the trafic have its own administrative political is different in essential features from with which it existing
and it has done a rather much less than the speed of railways. remarkable thing in model form, of a For very long voyages a good case can the public and official language. In 1779 total weight of about 3cvt, making over be made out for the airship.
But the Maria Thereen acceded to thess demands; twenty Eights unmanned, driven by a cost of building, of shed room, and of and recognised them as just. She with 6 hp engine, and landing each time maintenance makes it a bigger proposi drew the decree of 1776, and issued without injury. The design is, for a tion for capital. That it has a great another, in which Fiume was definitely large passenger-carrier, the passenger future is beyond question. The Germans acknowledged as an autonomous Italian being clear of the engines: andran passenger airship services during city. This decree of 1778 is the Magne it comprises an ingenious self-balancing many years before the war, and it was Charta of Fiume's autonomy. principle, which, successful in
in the m model their proud boast of the 17,221, persons
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AUTONOMY RECOGNISED,
months since the armistice had been verz encouraging in that respect. If we were going back to the old world it would be to a very much worse old earth than it was before, and to improve it we desired· to have five things:
There must be an adequate and fair
chance for everyone.
There must be a real spirit of brother- hood in the world of industry.
They must have a totally and entirely different change on the moral question. lieved in the power and grace of God.
They must see that people really be
They must be ten times more of the mis sionary than they had been in the past.
The Lord Mayor, who presided, said. “
promises success also in the full-sized carried none were injured. The services In 1848 the Cronts of the Ban Jalacich, machine. All the quantities and stresses only showed good financial side by who had helped Austria to suppress the have been calculated, and although thers reason of the fact that they were State Liberal rising in Hungary, took Fiume is always a margin of uncertainty in these aided, the vessels all being potential war from Hungary by force of arms, and new departures, it makes a fair claim on airships. Far better could be done now- inquiry, At the least there are features adaya. So far as Great Britain is con- held it until 1867. During those aine the design which, on their own account, cerned, however, we have never yet sue teen years the Fiumiaas continually are worth a trial. But at a time when all cooded in the big rigid division, in spite protested against the Croatian rule. In save the largest establishments are mark of the fact that we have had for the past order to keep down the constant spirit the East London Church Fund ought to ing time, there is but little hope for a vo years the advantage of Germany's of revolt, the Ban of Croatia proclaimed he supported by all who believed in the newcomer, and one takes leave to doubt
experience,
the technical data at martial law in the city, and in doing so Christian Church as an agency for the which the methods, cumployed by the Germany's disposal. Possibly we have had to use the Italian language is order banent of mankind. It was largely due authorities are calculated to encourage tried to introduce too many improve to have the decres understood. In 1887, to the Church that the poverty ad such new ideas, now that the war is over. ments. At any rate, it was vot until last when the Dualistic compromise (Aus- misery of so many districts of the
It is curious watch the pirship-aero-
that a British rigid airship was gleich was established, Fiume was re- Eastern part of London became known plane controrett, and to now each side produced that was of any service at all. stored, we fangats, and its complete to were fortunate people in other dis- in turn trotting out some specious objecThe vessel that was launched last Novem tion which could only impress the non-
non-ber, the
the R. 31, has not put up more than autonomy recognised. A decision taken tricts.
at Budapest by deputations from Hun- General H. Page Croft, M.P pleaded technical Thus, against the big asto- dozen hours of light, and has lower gary, Croatia, and Fiume laid it down for the same unity in the public spirit plane it has been urged that its size and
above the incapable getting weight are so great tank forced landing stratum of the air. She cost some that the free city of "Fiume" should of the country as there was amongst the
now, it is stated, remain a corpus separatum adnexum soldiers fighting abroad.** mean serions trouble, because of the rarity £300,000 to build, and is of big fat fields, and because breakdowns to be scrapped. It is a matter upon sacrae Regni Coronae (a separate entity involva costly and laborious removal which the public are cutitled to be in- annexed to the sacred Crown of the processes; whereas the ordinary aeroplane formed at a time when so much is being Kingdom of Hungary). is not gravely prejudiced by auch inci alarmed for the productions of our air. It is clear, then, that as far as the dents-Tais argument overlooks the fact hips department The L. 35, of which history of Fiume is concerned, the Croa
The Compagnie de Commerce et de that with the big aeroplane of to-day the preliminary trials bave just been tian wile there is represented only by a forced landings are rapidly sure to the The Atlantic. She is to beat all existing the confused and sanguinary period of There is nothing to report with regard being render postponed, i if it is announced, to cross few episodes which arose as a result of Navigation d'Extreme Orient, of Baiger,
in report April 23rd, states :--- numbers of the ground personnel neces records. Quite probably the rich the medieval feudal were Now historie to our market, which remains unchanged sary, the seroplane of course has the best cipations will be realised, but pat possession cannot justify claim of The total amount of rice taxported from of the airship every timeperiences with airships show that rulership where that post on hui only Tannary-1st-np to April 15th-1919 in PASAR ADVANTAGES OF THE AIR-BOAT, best not to discum publicly questions
The sirship exchisivist overlooks the performance until the actual achieve been transfer or he has beengre.60 tons against 411,424 tone in 1918-
We quote today White Saigon Rice big air-boat which, on accennt of the comment.Oficials should have learned 'ere cotablished o parative simplicity of its alighting gear, this that unfailed anticipations are quest. It is somewhat incongruous to No. 3 sifted Japau quality, Hongkong; will be capable of perior performance, fallowed by public reaction Daily And the Jug Slavs ostently champion- 8 per picul, 1.0.b. Baigon, for April MAT
Telegraph,
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