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The Air Estimates (wrote the Few journalistą have been treat- By the acquisition, as oppor- "Daily Telegraph's" Parliamentary ed to such a coming-of-age party tunity offers, of approximately correspondent recently) yielded ajas was assembled at the Savoy two acres of land, forming prac- first-rate debate, not In the ora- Hotel, Strand, recently to de tienlly a square in rear of the torical sense (for there was no honour to "Quex," of the London existing Selfridge Block in Oxford- oratory), but in the more useful "Evening News" (Capt. G. H. F. street, Mr. H. Gordon Selfridge sense of an interchange of Ideas. Nichols), in celebrating hia 21 has in view an extension which, There was more fresh original years in Fleet-street.

in his own words, will make the thinking in it than goes to a couple. The Earl of Birkenhead was

concern "the biggest store in the of Army debates or a dozen Navy the chair, and among the guests

world." debates.

In an interview with a repre- were distinguished authors, aol. Indeed, the air seems to have adiers,

Telo- of the "Daily actors, journalists, and Sentative peculiar faculty of provoking mark-M.P..

graph" he said: "A business like! jed divergencies of thought and off

breaking through the accepted con pressed it, no

As Mr. Edgar Wallace wittily ex- ours in a city such as London is capable of indefinite extension. one but "Quex" ventions. So would the birds if could have put Mr. Arnold Bennett but if we get the land we want, we Our plans are not yet complete, they were to take part in a coun and Mr. Jack Joel on nodding shall extend the store over the cil of the great cats and carnivores,

or brought Mr. Gordon whole area. of whose methods our tactics and

But the matter of Selfridge to sit beside [strategy until quite recently were

large negotiation is full of complica- shareholder in Whiteleys. only elaborated Imitations.

tions, and may take a long time— Lord Dewar, one of a score or so it may be years." In the middle of the debate came the news of Lieutenant Kinkend's who wrote regretting their ab-

Mr. Selfridge was not prepared death. It was like a speech made eenee, declared, "To be noted and to discuss the question of cost, noticed by 'Quex' is to have achiev-but it is obvious that, apart from Sir Samuel Hoare, the Ministered fame, if not immortality."

the erection of new buildings, || of Air, has a manner that is in Lord Birkenhead, in toasting when the time comes, a very curious contradiction with his mat-"Quex," said that it was the rift large sum of money must be in- ter. The manner is, mincing, al-jof their guest that, without ever volved in dealing with various most old-maidenish; the thought is thegrading his paragraphs to the interests, and that the process clear and downright, His speech level of sugary flattery, he never must be a gradual one.. to-day was a carefully thought out disfigured them by either vulgarity essay, rather than a departmental or malice. speech. Throughout he seemed to His pen indeed was kindly, but feel the necessity for continually was never obsequious. He pre- justifying himself against the twe served a poise very remarkable in older departments of defence. He one who dealt with topics in which is a romanticist in the sense in which no War Minister or First Lord of the Admiralty ever is. Ile is by the very nature of his office

He had an intuitive insight into an innovator and a pioneer of new that which might be said by ideas, many of which, it should be well-bred man of the world and added, not only the Minister, but that which might not be said; he Lady Maude Hoare, too, test by had a perspective and a correlation personal expérience.

which have been conceded to very few who have committed their bar-

sib silentio.

very slight error of taste in letail might mar the quality of the contribution as a whole.

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The area covered by the scheme is bounded on the south by Somer- set-street-on the other side of this thoroughfare is the Selfridge building-on the west by Orchard. street, on the north by Wigmore- street, and on the east by Duke- street. Mr Selfridge has already secured Somerset-street, and a} number of the small Georgian houses have been in the occupa- tion of the firm for some time. The Duke-street side, too, it is understood, is under his control, as is much of the Wigmore-street. section, and he holds ground leases in Orchard-street. All of the pro- perty is leasehold, and is largely on the Portman estate. be regards primarily as the great "Quex," in returning thanks,

Negotiations have yet to be annihilator of distance and unifier touched on the inspiration he re-affected in regard to the remain- of Empire. If only it can be made ceived from "The Daily Mail" der of Wigmore-street and safe and trustworthy, it can carry while on the threshold of a career Orchard-street.

Among the passengers in comfort, mails in

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Annihilator of Distance.

The longest section of his speech ques to those perilous and shallow to-day dealt with the airship, which waters.

(quantity, and, with its immense A silver cigar hox of generous nesa firms, private residents, range, can be independent of con-size was presented to him by his hotel and shop keepers, and with tact, with foreign countries.

all of these arrangements have to

Kave!

All this led up to the announce- ment that he hoped shortly to be- gin a weekly mail service by air- ship to India which would ten days between Calcutta andi London, The Persian Government, it seems, has unexpectedly placed dificulties in the way at the last moment, but these can be overcome or evaded by the choice of some other route.

Sir Samuel had comparatively little to say on the military side of aviation, though he told us of un increase of strength, amounting to four aquadrons, at cost less than last year's provision.

The second half of his speech; was an elaborate defence of the Air Ministry as a separate depart- ment, and of service in the air as a career for young men that was now stabilised. He also gave an account of some new progress of air science-notably in the substi tution of metal for wood in aero- planes. the invention of the "slotted-wing" machine, which diminishes greatly the risk of crashes, and in the development of flying-boats, on which he spoke with enthusiasm.

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Mr. Dalton opened the discussion from the Labour benches in one of those fucnt, accomplished speeches in which the second half cancels

intoning, paraonical [be made. There is, for instance, out what was said in the first half. manner, but he is one of the most in Orchard-street, the Portman Very different was the speech of thoughtful and original of our Building Society, that has been in Captain Guest,

occupation of almost new pre- an anti-Lloyd George Liberal, who usually votes)

mires for only two or three years, Conservative. He spoke to-day Colonel Moore Brabazon also dis. and holds an under-lease of them with quite remarkable forcefulness, tinguished himself to-day. He for a long term. Entered from are. St. accused Sir Samuel Hoare of hav-harked back to the old complaint Orchard-street, also, ing "a department of dynamite," that the three departments of de- Thomas's Church and schools, and talking about it as though it fence have to be discussed which lie almost in the centre of separately instead of as parts of t the square, and cover a good deal He maintained that we were fall-whole. Really he was reviving the of ground. It is understood that ing behind in our air services and old idea of Lord Randolph a picture approaching £80,000 has that much more rapid progress Churchill for a single Ministry of been offered for the church and WAB being made in America, Defence. That was rejected re- schools.

When the negotiations have France, and Germany. His grievcently by the Cabinet Committee

been brought to a successful issue too much, but spending, too little. The Opposition showed itself not the transaction as a whole will

Vision of Next War,

80 much unsympathetic with Sir rank as the largest of its kind That was also the view of Mr. Samuel Hoare as hostile to the de- that has taken place in the West- John Buchan, who spoke later in velopment of air-power. Mr. Rose, end in recent years. It may be the debate. He argued that if we who has one of the most vigorous regarded as indicative of the trend were going to economise, far bet- and independent minds on the of business westward which has ter to do it at the expense of the Labour benches, continued his already resulted in the invasion of Army and Navy. We were

not crusade against the airship, which many residential the Air Ser-he, regards as mechanically un- commerce. spending enough on vice. The next war would not basound and financially extravagant, u prolonged tug-of-war like the He is wrong, however, in thinking last. It would strike at the nerve that anyone ever proposed to en- centrea.

trust our defence to airships. If it is important to keep the Napoleon was wrong. Our busi-

Disarmament Call.

outside of your body clean it is ness in war was not to seek out the¦ The official Labour motion, mov- even mois so to keep your inside enemy's forces and defeat them, but ed by Mr. Barnes (a Co-operative-clean and in regular working to break the enemy's morale at the Labour member), denounce air order. If constipation troubles lowest cost to ourselves. The next warfare as a nienaçe to civilisation, you use Pinkettės. As gently sa war would begin with a struggle and urged the Government to take natura they ensure daily regular- for supremacy in the afr, and its the initiative in putting a pro-ity, at the same time banishing the result might settle, the entire war gramme for the abolition of mili-cause of liverishness, sick head- before fleets and armies could come tary and naval air forces and for ache, impure breath, pilea.

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