1941-09-11 — Page 37

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 11, 1941; ·

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OF COURSE YOU GOTTA DO AS THE SERGEANT SAYS! YOU'RE ONLY A PRIVATE! HE'S YOUR

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ABOUT IT? I'VE (PROMOTED?

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AIR DISASTER

WORKED FIVE

DUE TO ERRORS DAYS WITHOUT

OF JUDGMENT

ERRORS OF JUDGMENT were mention- ed by Sir Archibald Sinclair, the Air Minister, in the Commons yesterday in giving the re- sults of the investigations into the two fatal crashes of Atlantic aircraft in which 44 lives were lost.

Sir Archibald said that the first accident is attributed to an error in navigation which caused the aircraft to strike a mountain un- der conditions of bad visibility, which were not, however, such as to have justified can- cellation of the flight.

wrong runaway, pỰC-

The mountain is many miles the captain, firstly, in taking off from the track which the aircraft along the should have followed, and from sumably through an oversight the evidence available, it is impos second v. in allowing the aircraft sible to explain how the error oc- to swing to port with the result curred.

that is left the runaway and took

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The navigation Instruments to the grass. and thirdly, in not

engines had been fully and satisfactorily shutting tected, and the aircraft was promediately this had occurred. perty Inspected before the flight. In neither case was there evi- Their Inspectors' finding in the dence of negligence on the part of case of the second accident is that the authorities, of sabotage or of it was due to bad judgment by mechanical defects.—Reuter.

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COST OF LIVING INDEX

FOOD

THE MINISTER OF DISCLOSED IN A PARLIAMEN- YESTERDAY TARY · REPLY AFTERNOON THAT THE COST OF LIVING -- INDEX; WHICH HAD RISEN BY BETWEEN 45 AND 50% BETWEEN JULY 1941 AND JULY 1918, HAD ONLY RISEN BY 28% BETWEEN AUGUST 1, 1939 AND THE SAME DATE IN 1941.

For food only the correspond- ing increases were 61% (1914- 1916) and 22% (1939/1941).

Major Lloyd George, the Parlia- mentary Secretary, added that the total net expenditure on food sub- sidies up to March 31, 1941 was approximately £80,000,000. Simi- lar figures were not, available as to expenditure incurred since that date but the present rate of ex- penditure was ip- excess of £100,000,000 yearly. British.

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MALTA GRATEFUL

A SHIELD INSCRIBED "IN TOKEN OF APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE FOR THE BRILLIANT SERVICES ·"REN- DERED IN. DEFENCE OF THESE ISLANDS." WAS. PRE- SENTED TO THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AND FLEET AIR ARM BY THE ANGLO-MALTESE LEAGUE ON.TUESDAY, IN THE- NAME" "OF THE PEOPLE OF | MALTA","

Air Vice-Marshal Lloyd, reply- ing to the speech by the president of the League, said: "We have been called the Knights of St; John-they cleared the seas of the. Scourge of piracy, our task is to clear the air of the scourge of dictatorship and we will. Malte and its history is an inspiration to us all "Reuter

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