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KING EDWARD-

An astounding story of King Edward knocking down the Kaiser at Windsor Castle is related by Mr. Edward Legge in 3 des book, King Edward, the Kaiser, and the War (Grant Richards, 168.), just published. The volume also contains several hitherto unpublished letters from the German Emperor to the

late Lord Napier and Ettrick and his firat. wife

King Edward and the Kaiser will be Mr. Legge has litle doubt the story of contradicted in the Berlin semi-official Norddeutsche Allgememe Zeitung in the same way as his account of the Kaiser warning to a friend in New York not to allow his son to travel in the Lusitanin, Here is Mr Legget account of the incident as described to him for

Duying, one of his visits to Windsor Castle the Kaiser and King Edward had an altercation resulting from something said by the former So

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LETTERS OF AN AIRMAN.

BATTLES AND BULLETS

SAINT THEODORE SENT ON A

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[BY CONTACT,]

PERNAMBUCO, January 23rd

Mr. W, L. Hichens, Chairman of is enamell Laird, the great steel firm, made a striking speech, at the ans ual conference of the Headmasters Asso eition at the Guildhall. He remarked hat the pay of assistant masters was, on an average less than that of his hum's workmen, and considerably less than that of his skilled mochanics

I am not sure which is the more dis (or "THE TINCH SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF MECHANICS quieting, to be under bre in the air or on the ground: Although the airman is less likely to be hit then the infantry The British ship Saint Theodore, which man he has to deal with complications was captured by the German raider that could not arise on solid earth the Atlantic and had a prize crew put on Like the infantryman a pot may be board, kept alongside the raider while the killed outright by a questing bullet, and crews of the ships already captured were theres an end of it at one case of transferred to the Zarppudele (another of

the Infantryman be plugged, he knows he operation was finished the Saint Then a wound by bas a far worse time. If an ived at Swinemünde). Immediately this has probably received Blighty dhe dore's crew were transferred to the raider and as he is taken to the dressing station The Farrowdale left dext morning, and he dreams of spending next week-end in the Saint Theodore was sent away on a England. A wounded pilot dare think of raiding expedition on December 29th nothing but to get back to safety with bis mischine, and possibly an observer.

Ho may lose blood and be attacked by paralysing faintness. He must then make his unwilling body continue to

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Many officers of the raider, had Iron Cresses for services in the b

As the Canadian Pacific Railway's steamer Mount Temple, mother of the raider victims, was sunk the horses car

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grossly insult brain, for if he gives way to unconsciouswam to the raider, but were shot from ing words that, losing all contralogerness the machine freed from reasoned the deck by the officers and crew. Ou himself, he

to hig feet

und knockel gootro will perform circus tricks and Teck the crews all occupied the same the Kaiser

twist itself into n spinning hose diveeramped space

bus to thinks there is

The officers of the raider conversed free- inherently improbable in the story friendly country he must keep clearly with the contared officers and regret Bing

unlikelyhes anys, that any one herded; otherwise be will be unable to ted the state they were in. The captured would have taken the trouble to invent is exercise the judgment necessary for of the nerve-wracking conditions, all seemed to have had quite ***⠀⠀⠀ or could have imagined it at a time when landing.

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Mr Hichons, apeaking as a business man and employer of wide experience, threw accepted febries of education to the winds. Among his statements were the following te

It is better that a boy should leave school at sixteen or seventeen than at eighteen or nineteen, Specialised training at school is of ne

practical value.

Intellect mone does not carry us very

far in business

I choose men who can get on with their

fellow men.

When I make a choice of men nt Oxford I do ast look for the man who has taken a first in Greats or in history

1 look for the man who might have taken them if he had worked

The motta Safety first is the worst.

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11.30 am, Hongkong Rope Manufache Kaiser was 30 frequently VISITS Another unpleasant thought la, then because whenever the raider was engaged Moral and material 4

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The Kaiser's

gentle and tolerant of menally the post "He never lost control of himself never, in fact, unless something quite A CURE THAT CURES.

exceptional occurred, as, for example, the mysterious and never adequate explaited There are men and women in every theft from Dublin Castle of the Crowe locality who are being racked to death, jewels in: 1907. The particulars of the with Rheumatison. Many of them have orime were first given to his Majesty at tried electricity, liniments Turkish and the Viceregal Lodge Dublin, during his minokal baths, massage, cto, while others brief visit to Ireland in England, Mr. Have been doctored until they, have Icet all hope and patience, LITTLE'S

thinks, undoubtedly had ragenosis ORIENTAL BALM Les by its thorisance in the bad blood between himself and of auoressful cures, demonstrated its King Edwardly staff superiority over any known treatment for The Kaiser's envy and hatred of his the Cure of Rheumatism. Through it uncle led him to long for the time when sufferers have abandoned their crutches, opportunity should arise for humbling others have been cured after years of the Peacemaker and haughty Albion suffering. We have yet to learn of In single instance where LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM bhas not cured when given a fair trial.

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King Edward's successor the Kaiser imagined he saw a Sovereign infrm of purpose by comparison with his father one who would be willing to knuckle Mr. H. I Wood Whitcrees St, Here down to Germany at a time of crisis in ford, writers: For the past 5 years I European destinies, throw his influence have been laid up totally lame from into the Teutonic scale, and, so to say Rheumatism, and suffered the most exeru- range himself alongside his imperial cating pains all medical aid way cousin availing Two bottles of LITTLE'S To the amazement of William 11., ORIENTAL BALM cured me com King George, when the fateful moment photoly

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Thenceforward the Kaiser's insensate envy of Edward VII, was transferre to Geo:ge V. worthy son of a worthy

AN AIR PILOT'S CHANCES OF BEING HIT, Yet with all these extra possibilities of what bullet may mean, the chances of being plugged in the air are devidedly less than on the ground. While travel ling at anything from 10 to 140 miles an hour it is decidedly more difficult to bit another object tearing along it a like speed and swerving in all directions than from a machine-gun emplacement to Take a line of men advancing over the

The captured Americans left yesterday for New York, walios

I have heard that the plate of the raider Bore the date 1014.

ENGINEERING,

I often wonder," said Mr. Bichous, why the number of public school boys who choose eriginearing & à profesion is so small. We live in a mechanical, age, and our material progress is more closely bound with engineering than with Boy

up other profession, yet boys prefer the count ing house or the Army or the Civil Bar vice. One reason is that few scholarships

Boche and dives straight at him. You are offered to carry boys through their pp. follow until you are within range, then prenticeship, but the main reason is trat were away and round so as to attack the engineering career does not offer the raid and pour in a raking fire in shortThese are miserably paid as a rule, from the do. Now you have a clear same certainty is the others. buray-to-la-ba-ba, ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta but they offer amfe, though modest, com- ta, covering the enemy craft from stém petence, and during recent years boys have to stern. From all directions you hear been taught to go for the pale thing. Yet passes the rattle of other guns, muffled by the there is nothing that saps the xboral fibre A third of any boy-or, indeed, any nation moré louder noise of the engine. Another point favourable to the air-British machine ia under the Boche's tail, effectually than that he should embark on man is that he starcely resists the pre- and the observer in it is firing upwards. the journey of kfe with the motto Safety

once of bullets around him, for the roa

draw dearer and first hung round his neck. of his cigane drowns that whining psceng The three of you die Boche puts is There are three main types of activity which makes a man automatically closeuse down towcep say, but it is too open to young recruits in my business tho his eyes and duck,

lala Its petrol tank bursts into fames workshops, the commercial side, and the Given certain temperament, and and the machine dives steeply, a stravmmer laboratory and research branch. We bre certain mood, an air fight is the great of fame running way behind it. The fer that engineering apprentices should after serving an apprentice- if possible, est forta of sport on earth Every atom fire spreads to the fuselage and planes, start between axteen and seventeen, and, of personality mental and physical, Is After rushing earthwards for one to two ship in the shops and drawing office, conscribed into the task. The brain must thousand feet the whole aeroplane crum should go to a university for an enginfor- be instinctive with insight into the bles up and you ece the main portioning course. In the manufacturing branch, enemy's moves, and with plans to check falling like a stone. And you (who have too, we like recruits at the same age. and outwit him. The eye must coverslied the skin of sentiment and calm te We have, however, recently reserved every direction and co-operate with the strain and become for the duration of Brain a perfect judgments of time and the fight a bold bad pilot with the lust of a limited number of vacancies for univer

sity men. The research department distance. Hends, fingers, and fect must battle in your bloody arealled with 1931 should in the main be recruited from ani- be instantaneous un seizing an oppor Meanwhile, your observer's BD he versity men, but whereas these should have tunity to swoop and fire, swerve and heen grinding away behind you, showing received a scientific training at the uni- avoid, retire and return,

that you in your turn are attacked versity, we require no specialised educa You twist the machine round, Almost tiun in the case of aniversity men joining instinctively your feet push the rudder the commercial side, control just sufficiently to let you aim dead at the nearest enemy. You press the trigger. Two shots are fired, and then--your gun jams.

would

NO GREAT SCOPE,"

In an isolated fight between two single machines the primary aim of each pilot "The Cabinet met twice on that Sabbath to attack by surprise at close quar

There is no great scope for the bo day informal Ministerial conferences ters. If this be impossible, he plays for

of eighteen or ninetzen, who has spent two succeeded each other; at 4.30. the King position and tries to get above his on held a Council, and as soon as possible poncnt. He opens fire first if he can, as afterwards the country learnt that the this may disconcert the enemy, but he You bank und turn sideways, so as to years longer at school. In practice we has not acquired any special advantages Government har takon control of all wire must be careful not to waste ammuni let your observer get in soms shooting and that the boy of eighteen or viveteen less telegraphy, while the Admiralty bad tion at long range A machine with while you examine your gun. From by his two extra years at school which

enable him to outstrip the b

boy who called

the Naval Reserve, including little ammunition is at a tremendous dis the position of the cocking handle you out pensioners under the age of afty-five, and advantage against a machine with plenty realise that there has been a cross-feed has started his business career earlier As the Royal Volunteer Reserve

If an isolated British aeroplane seus Quickly but calmly-feverish huste might for specialised training at school, there Two days later Great Britain was at a formation of Germans crossing to dur, make a temporary stoppage chronic is ample time after a boy has started on war with Germany

side it has no hesitation in sweeping you lean over and remedy the fan Business career in which he can acquire forward to break up the party You gain your press the trigger, and never all the technical knowledge that his brain will remember our old friend Murma was found more welcome than the is capable of assimilating. says Legge Never had the blade, dear lady Only last week he ta-ta-ta-ta-tn which shows you are ready How far continued Mr. Hicles,

attacked ten German machines, chased for all comers.

Cher does modern education teach a boy how of the House of Hohenzollern bees so then back to their own pace in the Quce more you turn to meet the at to learn and how to live? I think that humiliated His hatred of England now knew to counds. He had expected to and air and drove two down tacking Germans. As you do, so your the tendency of modern education is often Di George Vlittle more than a rei

Even from the purely selfish point of observer polita to a black crossed bird in the wrong direction that tog little at- view much depends on the Arca, When which is gliding down after he has crip tention is given to the foundations which an airman destroys a Boche over German gled it. Birt three more are closing roupa lis buried out of sight, and too much to n country he may have no witness in you. Something sings loudly a yard away, a showy superstructure Saw opposed to him which rass his report is attended by an You turn your head and see that a land. No one can fail to notice the teddenty Now that the Kriser has for nearly two elusive shadow of polite doubt. But it | ing wire has been shot through, and ym to keep moral education apart from the and a half years caused Europe to become the dred by dome bear the trenches his than whatever gods there be that it was rest of the curriculum. The cou quence a welter of bloodshed, it is interesting to success is seen by plenty of people only not a flylog wire.

is that a boy's religious life and his or

everyday life are in two separate learn that in a letter to Lord Napier too willing to support his claim bom The flight commander and another

of life—this duplicity-pürgues the German imperial throne, the Kaiser Boche machine to land among the British you. They dash at a Bocle, and evident him to the end of his days producing that described himself as the guardian of He then follows his captive down, and some of their shots, reach him for shapelessness of life which Plata regarded The cple of honour Berlin, January 4th, 1259, and addressed

wooden lath painted to look like iron the merest shadow of Great Edward Man

H

written only a year after he ascended times a pilot may even force a damaged companion have just arrived to halpant compartments, and this intal

European peace. The letter is dated receives the surrender, Ehe also separates himself and glides with so much horro eers day life 18

My dear William

of The tactics of an air battle on a larger down. The two other Hats, finding which regulates In the course of scale are much more complicated than themselys catuumbered, retire, derived not from religious teaching, but it the Kaiser writes and those for single combats. A pálot must All this while the two rear machines from the cricket held or the football

What a succession sorrows have prised over our family. It be prepared at every instant to change have been having a bad time. They were ground. He grows to understand that he a, indeed, a fact hardly ever heard of from the offensive to, the defensive and surrounded by are enemies, at the very must play the game in the affairs of to lose one's grandfather and father hick argin, to take lightning decisions, beginning of the fight. One of the very day life, but he is not taught that. there is fair work corresponding to within the space of a few months. What and to extricate himself from one part | Boches has a sinos disappeared, bus

fair play Providence on the mighticat throne of the if, by so doing he can save a friend or sweep round and go to the rescite, ac men | And here am I suddenly placed by of the fight and swoop away to another, other four are very much there. - Yo world to be the guardian of the European destroy an enemy pa

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AN AIR BATTLE

To help you realise some of the experi. ences of art air battle, my very dear madam, Jet is suppose you have changed your sex and surroundings, and are dure of us dying in a bunch over the back of the German Eront, seeking whom we may devout

companied by the dight commander a the remaining, British machine Just as you arrive old X's bus drops forward and down, spinning as it goes. It falls slowly at first, but seems to gather momentum; the spin becomes wilder: and, wilder, the drop faster and faster.

A BROKEN TRADITION.

GENERATION THAT WILL MISS OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE

The question of the duty of the Univer Poor old X you think, how heats to the young men who returned from ly to lose him. Now the poor beggar the war was raised by Mr. H J Mac won't get the lears he has been talking

A moment ago the sky was clear of about for the last two month kinder, when he presided over the joint meeting of the Geographical and Mathe everytlung but those dainty cloud-banks your thoughts, turn to Y; the observer inmatical Associations, to the east. Very suddenly a party of the lost machines You know his foncé, enomics appear out of nowhere, and we you remember also he owes you 30′ francs rush to meet them. Like the rest of us, from last night's game of bridge, you concentrate whole being part you must play, and tune yourself up to the strain attendant, on the first shock of encounter. What happens in the first few seconds often decides an air fight

For the first time since the days of Charles the First, the tradition of Oxford and Cambridge had completely broken. A You, but to was femposable, to

lifer but all the Huns have dived and are now had dropped out. It w too low for purenit. You recover your think that after the war the vast majority place in the formation and the fight en is of young men now s at the front, under or- as suddenly as it began. Ons German dinary circumstances, would have been the machine has been destroyed and two recruits of our learned professions, would The opposing forces close up and per- driven down, but one of ours has ever go through the normal undergraduate fect their order of battle The usual failed to return,

course. It would take too big a slice cut of life, and the demand for men would be German method is to fly very high and When you return and land, you are far too urgent, and the taaks to be done range the machines one above the other not so contented as usual to be back. 20 great, in tiers. If the higher craft are in Thero will be two vacant plase, at diu trouble the dive and join the others. Dr and there is a nasty job to be done. It would be up to the Universities to If one of the lower ones be surrounded. You will have to write rather a painta give to these practical young, wen who those above can swoop down to its ho'p.letter to Y' fiance ever came back the extence of a liberal eines

tion, and to do it in the only way that Our own tactics vary according to cir cuinstances,

At the start it is a case of follow my leader. The fight commander selects (Continued at foot of next column)

Madam you are now et liberty to give he would, generally speaking, be ready to up the temporary role of a bold, bad submit to, namely, in some shortened way pilot and become once more your charm and is a way that obviously bore directi ing self.Daily Chronicle

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