OUR AIR SUPERIORITY.
By Major Gen. Sir F. Maurice.
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Superiority, but not Enough. We have now, and have had for a long time past, a superiority in the air at the front, but wo have always had to fight hard for it and it has never, since the batile of the Somme, been a great auperiority. We bring down
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the lower deck takse the form of an exaggerated individualiam. If a man be in need of anything be
Export of Capre. taksa it; and than it is tha: in The Governor of the Straita rough wasther the oilskins of an Settlements hay been authorised entire ship's company will play to grant, without conditions, musical chaira with their owners, licences for the export of sopra The sea chanty is dead, and: Then there the touching and comment cil to approved After a period of thundery weather, with low heavy clouds, more of the enemy's seroplanes steam has been its executioner. complet which embodies our view firms in Japan which have given.EAD OFFICE, HONGKONG
1 guarantees. against - re-szport, followed by high winds & épell then he bringe-down of ours. For chanties were the children of apon the hereafter of summer calm has set in, and which means that he has greater the olden time when sailing ships Old sailors never die, never The amount of coconut
die, never dis
oil: no licenced is not, to bas brought with it a great difficulties than we havein finding glided out of quiet harboura to
Old sailors never die-they exceed the amount per month by General increase of setivity in the air. out what is going on behind dawdle upon the waters of the
only fade away.
which production at factories
transacted. Daring the recent moon Paris has the front, and in directing the world. In these days of craft been stacked almost nightly, and fire of the long-range guns. But from base to base like hares.
Fade away, presumably, to during the previous month ex- our raide into Germany hare be the enemy deea interfere with whisking over a hillside, leisurely Fiddler's Green the authentic ceeded exporte during that month, come again a regular feature of cur reconnaissaros, and he does songs of the aes would be stranger hesten of the lower deck. The and in any case stocks are not to the daily reports. In the interval bring of earprise blows; he does than fields of daffodils in Wigan. same ides expresses itself, half be reduced below 2,000 tons. of comparsiiva quiescence there comes over to our side sad see And thus it comes about that the play fal, half regions, that the Copra may be exported without have been a number of what we are doing. If we bomb stray ends of dead chanties which interesing developments. The him he bombs us, and he is not we sing when life is good are all sale of departed matelota sek a fixed limit so long as sufficient the bodies of new born seagall, remains for the requirements of suncanced troubled by scruples se to where that a more epscious epoch has and, as the birde swoop down local crushera, Air Ministry has
inde. bis bomba fall, he shoote from bequeathed to de the creation
apon fragments of food, they will Japanese Military Contracts át ope bell-of an afternoon pendent air force, and the air into our trenches just as
point out "old ships," declaring On September 5 the Military Sing her! Sing ho; We're that this gall is Lofty Bo and so Arsenal at Tokyo invited tenders appears from the communiques we shoot into his. Therefore, if
relling along; that the prime mission of this we have superiorily in the air,
who went down at Jatisad' for the supply of 400 tons of force is Bitack on Germany. Its which we certainly have, it is so Give a stelot his bubbly and yonder ugly brute some "crusher” electrolytic copper, to be deliver.
nothing goes wrong! future development will belyet as complete as we want it to
|(or police corporal) of unhappy ed in four instelmente from watched with great interest. We be, sad se it will be..
will greet the kettle in which the memory.
October in Arril. Of this quantify Sir William Weir put the daily dole of tote in borne to a already know from the German
For the real matelot does not 200 tons for October and Novem- communiques that, quite apart matter very clearly a short time meas from the spot. where, with resemble the happy-go-lucky her delivery are to be bought without blaeb, they violate nest rum fellow of tradition. He is sa from the Mitani Barras Kaisbe at from the damage it has done to ago in an interview the Bhine towns, it bas compell representative of a French news with one or two or three parts of eager to make sure of a here se Y.121 per 100 kilo,
When siked as to the water. (Why" babbly" is strong of a hers after; and he will Y 72.06. ed the enemy to bring back more paper.
per pical, which and more gune, and more and reality of the Allied superiority abcard one.ship and weak aboard reserve a decent scorn, not is considerably. lower then "For the another may or may not be known untainted with malice, for the current quotations. For the re- more aeroplanes, from the front in the air, be said: in response to the pereistent moment, yee, perhaps we do have on that day when the sea gives abipa that cover go to ses. Thus maining 200 cone, the Mitsubishi demside of the German popo- it, and we shall continue to have up its acrets) An hour later whan liberty men, ashore on an Company bid the lowest price, lation for protection. We are thus it if we know how to keep it one of the cooks of the day may hour or two's leave, are suddenly but it is said that this was con forcing upon the enemy the long as we stick to our work." be beard hemming, sa he wanders recalled by booters, by fisge, and eiderably higher than the bid by same messures which he has Sir Willism also made it quite wearily of with a kettle in one by the diligence cf petty cfficers, the Mitsui Busean Kaichs, and compelled us to adopt, and have clear that the Air Ministry bad hand for dishing up water and a they will yell as they pass the the na korities are reported to be SHANGHAI
obtained thereby
definite no intention of saorificing dir kettle in the other for the next parent ship tied up in security negotiating with the Mitsubishi TIENTSIN
battlefront day's meat and potatoes,
by the jetty: military advantage distinct frome Fei-ncy on the
firm with 8 view to gelling its distance bombing the acinal damage done by the to long.
Thank God! I've killed my The Fido's way over the coean;. price lowered. of Germany, for he added: "We cooking cham! dropping of bombe.
The Fido's way over the sea j There has long been so agits must continue to perfect every
The Fido's gone torpedo-
ranning; tion in certain circles, both in type of machine, whether obema England sad in Faces, for a vation, registering, bembing, or great and early development of chasing clanes." No one but s Aerial attack upon Germany, which in the eree of its macet enthusiastic supporters will go far to decide the war. I am very far from under-rating the importarce ment is being gained every day. It may be that this particular One of the symtoms of this 30 d/s of carrying the war into Germany new developments will certainly chanty was the most ancient of yearning sitersecurity is a passion 60 d/s
.. 4 m/s.... by every possible means, sad I come, and one can caly speculate them all. Possibly, indeed, it for living as much as possible at
T/T Shanghai fally appreciate the great moral es to their effect. But we must be may have been an adaptation of other folk's expanse. Amongst T/T Singapore
Rect which the bombing of cautions in sacrificing the solid some Hebrew ditty written in the as the really "shonky man can T/T Japan....... 150. German towns will produce, when Iraans we have learnt in bunting days of the Ark. You will re-achieve miracles in the way of T/T India
Nom. the people of Germany zee that chimeres.
member. bow, to begin with, personal thrift. He will borrow Demand, India decisive military success is not
Output Still 'locreasing. Noah was given the exset matches, writing paper, blanco, T/T San Francis- It is as certain se shy thing can specifications for the first of the postage stamps, cigarettes, newe- within their power. Bat bombing
co & New York) be in war that the Allied aac-Dreadnoughta and bow, finally, he papers, lanyarde, ink. raide, bowyer pumerous and
He will T/T Java ................. ******.17514. effective, will not convert defest eriority in the air will develop bad celebrated his six hundredth live on tonet and "gash spude". TIT Marke on the battle field into victory, and steadily. Our own output of birthday before" the flood of the (which is to say potatoes left over T/T Franes if we allow wieplaced enthusiasm sircraft has not yet reached its waters was upon the earth." Not from the general dinner of his to divers, serial force from the maximum, and that of America one of the commentators haseren mese). He will become a charac
4 m/s. L/C battle field in order to carry out bas hardly begun to make itself attempted to explain the advancter, revered rather than otherwise, 4 m/s. P distant enterprises into Germany that the standardisation and was responsible for the
America has discovered ed age which in all likelihood meeting with placid good-nature 6 m/s LC we'ebell certainly'sofer..
old the refrain that will dog him from 30d/s.Sydny&Mel- rapid productica of aircraft, on a gentlemen's failure to navigate rise-and-saine to pipe-down: } eosle each us bas been schievedMount Atarat. No student of the At present the prime duty of in the care, esy, of motor care, is duckyard mastey will have the
Old Harry Freeman, passing 30d/s. San Francis the Air Forces in France is to not sat poreible, and that early ghost of a doubt about it; and
this way! co operate with their comrades on forecasts have not materialised, those of you who do not know
Old Harry Freeman, nothing
"to pay! the ground in defeating the but she is putting the matter him intimately must clearly
nemy. They bars to act as the. eyes of our generals and to blind right with
a
Work on the Front.
the enemy without them much
of our longrange artillery would
be useless, end while directing
Our
1
single line surviving from a funeral dirge of which the general tone must have been capetic.
Can a dockvárd matey run?
fcel would commis bimeeli to Yee, be can! I've seen it done! prophecy as to the development is another of there complete that cf. aerial warfare. It is a have been left stranded in the sim, experience in its employ memory from a forgotten song
felt.
own fire they have to prevent the enemy from directing Germany, eten when she was free licence. hie; they have to harass and to bring over ell her air forces
air zaid into: Germany.dockyard,
01 Send back the Fido to
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melody and much wit, it is too
other branch of aerial activity, such in which words the lower deck naughty.-Robert Williamson, in a superiority as we had in the politely mocks the efforts of a the Manchester Guardian. battle of the Somme, and this as rindly lady to make their lives!
far as can at present be foreseen more beautiful.
in order to carry the air war into will be one of the first great stepa Germany." This does not mean towards final
that
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distance bombing, but that it
should be given its place in our
air place 36 & whole.
The time of our greatest air
Lad complete
Food Ministry Changes..
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calebrates the envy of those superiority was in 1916 at the In the event of Mr. Clynes be- matelots whom iste has sentenced battle of the Somme. Germany coming Food Controller, it is likely to ses-time towards the other had then concentrated most of that a Parliamentary Secretary telots whom fate, frequently the aeroplanea ehe had in the to the Department will be apsided by natural adroitness, has West sheng Verdun for the great pointed in each Hause, Severel kept in barracks. When tons of battle that was still raging there names are mentioned for the water are falling alap upon the and she had to maintain a coa posts, among them the Dake of fo'o'ale, men coming off watch siderable air force on the Russian Marlborough, Lard Crawford, drenched and cold and hungry front, so that we were able to Lord Batbereedsn (member of the will bawl the lines with mach
Council at bring into the battle a decided Conenmers
the feeling as they throw off their
an periority in aircraft. Not Ministry), Sir Charles Bathurst, oilskins and reach out for basins
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