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CIVIL PILOTS FOR SCHNEIDER RACE.

Britain may get win the Schnei- der Trophy seaplane contest next | year...and thus obtain for all time the greatest speed trophy of the world.

After winning the contest twice" in succession, the Air Ministry de-

The Rev A D. Belden, in his

Crowds assembled early one morn Whitefield's Central at Mission Church, Tottenham Courting last month to witness the ex- Road, Londen, last month, said fecution of the Corsican Griffaut, that in spite of occasional scenes the most formidable bandit thatcided not to compete in the 1831- of violence, almost faevitable under Marcilles has ever known: ---

race. He was the chief of a band of the present repressive laws and

"It was announced recently how- caused administration, and so intimately apaches who for years.

over, that the Air Ministry is wil- dependent upon the wisdom and periods of terrorism. The exploiting to lean the high speed racing humanity or otherwise of local for which he was executed was com craft, which roared to vietary at anthoritics, Gandhi's movement of mitted in broad daylight, between 328 miles an hour last year, to any divil disobedience had made and the Stock Exchange and the Cen-responsible body who wishes to en- was making steady and successful tral Post Office, and but 300 yards ter them for the 1931 contest. progress. Here was a phenomenon which should make the Christian churches in Great Britain stand and gaze, and command their awe and

A new drug, the presence of which is extraordinarily difficult detect, is being used for the "dop ing" of racehorses in England,

Dr. Richard William Starkle, formerly Metropolitan Police sur geon, and a prominent practitioner among racing and theatrical people in London made this sensational statement in an interview.

Jaside information concerning the licit drug traffic in Britain, ob- tained from Dr. Starkie, has been published as a warding to the authorities. Dr. Starkie has "just served a punishment of five months in prison for an offence against the with the pitiful example. of dangerous drug regulations. It was Ireland Ideming up from our recent contended that Dr. Starkie sup-history, said Mr. Belden, with the plied prescriptions for heroin to a sheer impossibility of holding In- patient when he was not authorised die's millious down by force, it to do so.

would seem to be for once a per- feet coincidence of Christian duty and sound Imperial politics to give India as rapidly as possible full self-government within the security provided by the British Common wealth of Nations."

Gingering Them Up. Cocaine has been used," said Dr. Starkie, to ginger up race-" horses fairly frequently--much more frequently than the stewards of race meetings imagice.

reverence.

from the Cannebiere, the chien street of Marseilles,

There Griffaut and his friends attacked and killed a bank messen-

All the bandits were arrested, but ger and robbed him of £3,200. Griffaut only we sentenced to death.

A few days ago his aged mother. came from her village in Corsica to Paris to beg President Doumer gue to pardon her son-but the crime was too serious.

The only stipulations are that those responsible for entering the craft shall provide their own pilots and insure the machines..

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Special Training.

To find pilots for the high speed craft will be the greatest difficulty.

Flying at 400 m.p.h. is a highly specialised job requiring months of strict training. The Service pilots who are now at Felixstowe with the High Speed Flight of the R.A.F. A force of 1,500 troops, police have been barred from the contest, thisise the duty will devolve on commer- and gendarmes kept order morning in front of the prison,cial pilots. outside whose entrance the execu tion took place

Many spectators had taken up positions during the night in trees in order to see the grim spectacle.

"Roofs of houses round about were Chris-crowded long before dawn.

Gandhi was the..greatest tian at present on the earth, al-

The fire brigade was called out to dislodge the people from the

A horse receiving a shot of cocaine just before a race shows diated eye pupils, dilated nostrils though in his humility he disclaim-trees by turning jets of water on

ed the name, and that man had them. been put, regretfully, into prison by the most Christian Power, pro- fessedly, in the world. Would it not be more sensible to have him at an immediate round-table con- ference rather than in prison, in- stead of waiting until October 20, the suggested date for the round table conference 1

and à crimson redness of the nos trils.

An examination of the boree's saliva quickly reveals what has happened.

"It is not generally known, how ever, that here is now a drug-not classed as a dangerous drug, but allied to cocaine which is far bet ter as gee up! stuff than cocaine. With this drug none of the symp- toms of cocaine are manifest.

"It takes longer to act thar cocaine, and can be timed accur- ately. Cocaine to be effective with a horse has to be administered im- mediately before a race, which is

difficult and dangerous.

always

Adding To 'Speed."

"The new drug can be given halt An hour before a race in perfect freedom from detection. There is only one test that will show ita." use, and that an extraordinarily difficult one with a horse.

Tests that have been carried out prove that the drug adds several lengths to the speed of a horse over a mile.

I know that this drug has been and is being used in some of the

most important races in England and abroad.

"Fortunately, the use of the drug is known only to a limited circle of racing people, but it is not difficult to obtain."

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THE MAYOR'S NEW PLANS FOR WIESBADEN,

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A diver was fighting for his life in Folkestone Harbour, recently while passengers were boarding the 'mporaing steamer, for Boulogne, unconscious of: the drama being enacted a few yards away. The man's life was saved with only thirty seconds to spare.

The driver, Mr. John Rout, who way, in charge of diving operations in the harbour, decided to go down on the west side to try to locate parts of a crane which had fallen into the sea.....

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He had been down about eight minutes when the air passage be- came obstructed and be lost, con- sciousness.

receiving no answer to their signals The two men in the diver's boat,

with the life-line, pulled the diver up by a rope and shouted for a doctor.

Five ambulance men were, rushed to the spot while the diver, in his heavy suit, was rowed to the beach.

They applied artificial respiration for some time before he recovered sufficiently to be taken bome in an ambulance.

One of the ambulance men after- wards said: Another half a minute and he would have been dead.”.

GAOL FOR AN EX-DEAN.

CAREER OF A FORMER ARMY

CHAPLAIN,

A Clergyman's remarkable' career Royal Air Force officer, was re- as a priest, Naval volunteer, and

vealed at Southport, police court last month, when Henry F. Mercer, ex-Dean of Perth, Western Australia, was sen- aged fifty-eight, an tenced to six months hard, labour. on charges of false pretences and obtaining credit by fraud.

Other cases were taken into con- sideration.

A plea to turn Wiesbaden into what is somewhat exaggeratedly termed a German Monte Carlo " has been made in all seriousness by its present Mayor. Wiesbaden- needs financial help badly, and the City Fathers are all the more crush ed by the knowledge, in so far as they are innocent of all the wrong doing laid at the door of other German cities now in difficulties. Wiesbaden has indulged in no ex- pensive building nor speculated in risky, undertakings. It is argued that the harm done to the town by the occupation in keeping away

Mr. Compton Carr, representing German tourists and preventing the Mercer, said that Mercer was or wealthy retired from all over the dained in 1885. He held three country from settling in what used curacies in the east of London, and to be their favoured spot, is only afterwards became Metropolitan one of the many evils that have Secretary to the Church Army, an befallen it. The loss of the rich office he held more than nine years. Russian who used to come annually Ho became vicar of Hawthorone, and spend many months has not Melbourne, in 1905, and in 1912, was been counter-balanced by the ad-appointed to the Deanery of Perth, vent of the American and the Western Australia, an offce be growing interest of tho Dutch occupied for five years. When wor tourist. They do not stop long broke out he offered his services, cnough.

and became Chaplain to the Forces, acting, as such for a little over two years.

He then joined the combatant forceg and became a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserva. Ajitgewards ha became a 480}{50*0= the Royal Air Force and continued as such until 1919.

German tourist traffic authorities state that only a very definite at traction in these days of motoring can hold any traveller not merely in search of health at all longer than unescork.j.Wierdades elaung that that lure of the gaming table has proved its worth in Zoppot, the seaside suburb of Danzig, in Cannes, San Mercer was licensed to officiate. Rema and even in puritan Switzer in the Diocese of Northern Europe and, and that there seems no resin 1927, but, unfortunately, he was son why Germany should not avail convicted at Zurich on a charge of herself of similar means of taxation fraud in that year, and since then to help both the city and the he had found it difficult to obtain national exchequer,.

alivelihood.

Normal test pilots seldom find opportunities of flying at speeds greater than 250 m.p.h., and as it is quite likely that the Schneider Trophy craft will reach 100 m.r.b.,: it will mean men being specially trained for the work.

Makers to Confer.

An expert said that given pro- per weather conditions, so that the Later the roofs were also cleared. pilots could get in a few hours' While M. Diebler, the chief ex-flying each day, they should become centioner, was superintending the accustomed to handling the ultra- erection of the guillotine, the police high speed machines in three or had several cuffies with the crowd. four months.

At dawn Griffaut was aroused from a sound sleep in his cell by

the Public Prosecutor.

Just before he was placed on the quillotine, Griffaut shouted in a loud voice: "Good-bye, Fifi. Death to the police."

Fifi is his handsome sweetheart, and one of his band who is in prison.

A few seconds afterwards the kaife fell.

The crowd then burst the police and military cordon and surged round the guillotine. It was only with great difficulty that it was driven back and dispersed.

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When informed a representative of the Napier Aero Engine Com pany of the Air Ministry's decision said it was probable that his com pany would confer with the Gloster company, with a view to sharing the Gloster-Napier racing seaplane built for last year's contest, and preparing the machines for even higher speeds next year.

.Britain won the last two Schnei- der Trophy contests. If she wins the third, which will take place over British waters, the Trophy, 1913 by Jacques. presented in Schneider, will become the absolute property of Britain.

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