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sent from Scotland for a dinner being held at the Cataract. Hotel by the many Scotsmen who are busy heightening the Asspan Paza

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EDINBUñaн, Desember 14. London, Nov. 29-Air Marshal than twelve months aeroplanes of There is exhilaration in leaving Bir Geoffrey Salmond, the present Royal Gifts at Sale of Work in the Royal Air Fares have flown in a drah wintry london and the commander-in-chief of Britain's sir

Glasgow. formation overseas more than damp, dirt-laden air, and for an defence and selected to succeed his

Comparatively high prices were es, an aggregate distance half as sunshine under blue sky in the of the Air Staff, brought a note of paid for several articles which were much again as that flown on simi- crystal-clear heavens, writes. Mayor reality into the disarmament con- received from the Queen for a sale ¡lar duties during the previous C. C. Turner in the London Daily roversy in a speech the other of work held on December 3 st year. Their journeys have taken Telegraph. Up a couple of thou- night. His defence of the air arm, St. Bride's Escopal Church, Glas them over thousands of miles of sand feet, through which it takes which is threatened with drastic gow. The gifts comprised a blue the Indian Ocean-much of the dis no more than five minutes to climb, cuts and even abolition, took the cot, cover in crepe de chine, a tance along routes never previous and you are there.

brm of a reasoned argument that handsome hand-embroidered linen ly travelled by flying machines Good for the lungs, and cron-bet-ir forces are the greater deterrent cushion cover, hamall knitted bed through the heart of Africa, from ter for the spirit, reminding you against way that could possibly be jacket, and a copy of the Bingapore to Australia, around the that when fog or clouds oppress invented. He suggested that the we Forget" souvenir diary com- Baltic Sea, from Malta to the cast the mind they are but local cir- proposal to abolish air forces ori-piled by Captain Donald Simson, G. G. Henderen, Regius Professor ern Mediterranean and the Sudan, cumstances, and that there is sun-ginated in a fundamental miscon and over every mile of coastline of shine at hand:

option that war, which is only a the Arabian peninsula.

When fog, which is usually a process of organised killing, can be More than half of the total mile shallow layer, turns day to night, made humane.

He added that age during the period-the exact a kito balloon would carry you on

statesmen and proportion is 63 per cent.has been no more than 600ft, of cable to others' who contemplate a war now. covered by large mulli-engined fly Mediterranean datale, warmth, and adays or in the future know well ing boats, the type of aircraft blue. I wonder why it is not done that by aggression they lay open their countries to terrible attacks which experts believe may super sa a regular cure.

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honorary secretary of the British Empire Service League, The Queen conveyed her wishes for the success of the sale in a letter which was received from Lady Cynthia Col. ville. Order of the Thistle. Service in St, Giles' Cathedral.

4.

Death of Mr. Muirhead Monat.“

Mr. Muirhead Moffat, who died in Glasgow during the week-end, came first into the antique business in which he had achieved national distinction, by collecting grand father clocks for a shrewd dealer, was good and genuine in art in this who recognised the fair for what commercial traveller, as Mr. Moffat

Chemical Industry. Scots Committee to Review Prospects.

With a view to obtaining autho- ritativa information on the pros pects of the chemical industry in Scotland, the Scottish National Council has appointed a committee which will enquire into the whole position of the industry, Professor of Chemistry at Glasgow Univer sity, is chairman of the committee; and Professor F. J. Wilson, of the Royal Technical College, Glasgow. is vice-chairman. At ity inaugural meeting in Glasgow the committen decided to extend the scope of the inquiry by including the oils, paints, and varnishes industries and "the fermentation 'industries."

213,000 Gift to Glasgow University. Graduate's Bequest for Scholarships.

sede ocean cruisers and mail boats A German doctor prescribed for from the enemy, who will take no

By command of the King, the along important sections of the girl of fourteen suffering from notice of the old frontiers, but will Empire trade routes. The longest bronchitis & trip in an aeroplane, transfer the attack immediately to annual St. Andrew's Day service Hight of all, that of 19,000 miles After two fights, one of an hour, the home front. "With this pos- of the Ancient and Most Noble. from Singapore to and from the the next of four hours, at a height sibility existing," he asked are Order of the Thistle was held in little-known Andaman and Nicobar of 3,000ft, her cough was almost they so likely to take upon them- the Chapel of the Order, St. Giles' Islanda, was performed by a squared.

selves the responsibility of creating Cathedral, Edinburgh, on December

fatimation was made to the Glas a.war?" dron of air boats which had · been.

The knights brethern who nt instructed to investigate the

He sent a middle-aged business

Much of the appalling mischier tended were:-The Duke of Atholl, gow University Court on December -8 of a bequest of £13,000 which Dr. cutta and Singapore which should loss of the initiatory faculties for. Wrought by the last great war fo the Marquess of Linlithgow, the James A. Ure, a former Glasgow sibilities of route between Calman suffering from depression and go by way of the islands instead a series of fights. The result was owed as a direct consequence on Earl of Crawford, and Balcarres; of along the Burmese and Malayan complete cure, which the doctor a long duration. Millions of men the Earl of Home, the Earl of graduate, had made to the Univer were thrown into an almost statice Strathmore, Viscount Novar, Lords Principal R. S. Rait, in an- nouncing the bequest explained that rants. In less than six weeks the novel experiance and the reactive conflict, millions of them were kill- Elphinstone, Sir John Stirling Dr. Ure, who died in Dorset last

ed or wounded, while at home pri- Maxwell, and the Earl of Mar and flying machines arrived back at effect on the patient's will-power. vation and bardship led to the loss Kellie. The Dean of the Order of month, had left his estate, the ap. proximate value of which was. their Singapore base they had

of hundreds of thousands of lives the Thistle, the Rev. Dr. Charles L. 113,000 to the University Court, spent 244 hours in the air and com-

Flammarion, the French astrono as well as causing injury to the Warr, officiated. Before the chapel who were to be the executors. It ploted a job over which surface mer and aeronaut, cured a bad in physique of the people of the de service there was a brief comme- was for the purpose of providing vessels would bare spent many duenza cold by one trip in a bal feated nations which will endure to moration service for the Duke of scholarships or prizes in medicine, loon, and a great number of bal- the third and fourth generation of the Order: Subsequently the research work with regard to cancer

floxburghe, who was Chancellor

especially for the encouragement of Iconists have testified to the whole With this in mind Sir Geoffrey knights attended divine service in Spring Cruise to Africa,

some effects of the mild excitement went on to point out that the chief St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, and tuberculosis. Dr. Urs grad÷ Next in order of length was the and change of air andergone in a danger to civilization was the pro-

uated in 1887, at Glasgow.. spring cruise of four day bomber balloon voyage.

longation of war. Col. Fred Burnaby, one of the

The Laminated Golf Club, landplanes from Cairo to Kenya,

"Anything thaté can shorten "a Tanganyika, Uganda: and back, old ballonists, used to take to the war-and the air forces of the which extended to 18,200 miles air when in a fit of depression, world are the most powerful arm

that clubs with laminated shafts The Royal and Ancient announce Hore again the war planes com- and has described how in an acute to do such a thing should not be

of wood" are permissible, in ad- bined military reconnaissance with case, defying a certain risk that he abolished, but should be retained,"

dition to the strel-shafted golf clubs work undertaken at the request of ran, he lit a cigar and smoked it he said. It was largely due to the

on the American model. These also the various colonial governmenta pn his way across the Channel in presence of the RAF in the out which saved the expenditure of balloon,

thousands of pounds and A blind man who was taken up reigned there since the wara

laminated article is one where porte of the Empire that peace had

appear to be an American device for it is explained that the many much time,

in an aeroplano said, "It was decluding statement which the Air

sections of hickory, or of hickory Year after year the Royal Alix fightful, and made me feel nearer Bambal could have backed up with then was

paradise."

ane cane, ara glued and lasted to Force, which is unique among the

incontrovertible facts, Sufferers from neuralgia have ob-

gether in order to form the shaft Clyde Yacht Visitors, world's fighting air services intained at least temporary relief

for the club Mere Englishmen. shouldering responsibilities in three from what perhaps may be no more

GROWTH OF AIR- continents, is preparing the way than the temporary shaorption in

The big-class yachts which will might have been inclined to refer to such an article as a apliced shaft for the world-wide network of air

accompany the King's famous racer MAIL

but that designation is not elegant. lines that before the end of another there are real physical effects.

experience; but possibly

Britannia to the Clyde for the enough for the golfers of U.S.A. decade will rank first in the sys Hubert Latham, one of the fa

Fortnight regattas "next summer At St Andrew's it is not thought. will be Mr. T. 0. M. Sopwith' likely that there will be much of a of inter-Imperial transport. 'mous cross-Channel flight pioneers, Where the war machines fly to-day had a tendency to consumption,

Shamrock V. Mr. Hugh F. Paul's future for laminated shafts on this the air-linem ply regularly to and one of his reasons for taking

Astra, and Mr. Stephenson's new side of the Atlantic for it is point- "J" class yacht, the koel of whiched out that moisture is apt to enter morrow-that is an axiom of Em to flying was a hope of obtaining pire air development. Royal Air benefit to his health. His health thirty or so international commis owners of three of the 11-metres the liminations come ungummed, The well-meant activities of some has just beca laid at Gosport Also at the joints, with the result that. Force aeroplanes flew first between was definitely improved by flying. Egypt- and India along the line But it is, of course, dificultosions, committees and sub-commit have accepted the Clyde Yacht The glue that holds in the drier Club'a conference's invitation to States might cally prove unequal now followed by the British mail assess the credit in right propor industry which might tax the en compete at the Fortnight's regattas to an English winter.

tees a mighty burden for a young and passenger carrying craft. They tons between pioneered the route through Afri effects of travel in the air and the the apathy of postal authorities (Zoraida, File), Sir W. P. Burton the sheer physical france even of merchant shipping They are Mr. A. C. Connell ch, where the civil airway has been paychological effects of a great new and the passive resistance of many J. B. Bolitho (Morwenna ex. established on the foundation of interest,

(Veronica, Myine) and Captain R. emergency landing grounds and

people now high in. authority who

It is expected that the now Lord. fuel supply depots laid down in

Moyana, Fife).

Bretor of the University of Edin the first place for the regular year- vament due to flying are on record,gress of civil aviation. They have Many instances of health impro were born in an earthbound age doubtedly have braked the pro

burgh, General Sir Ian Hamilton, Company Balance-sheets. ly formation cruises of military but that does not mean it is an in-tiled to stop it; facts such

will deliver his Rectorial address at aircraft from Chiro to Cape Town. fallible cure. On the other hand, ose now revealed, about the grow don of Glasgow University Choir cent years it has been the cus The plen made by Professor Lou the University next March In re They have explored and surveyed I have not heard of an instance of ng volume of air mail transport of Accountancy when lecturing into give their restorial addresses to many another airway where soon health impairment from flight. along the regular British air the city of Glasgow on December 5

tom for holders of this high office. the commercial 'planes will follow When the air.ia "rough" some airlines are sufficient proof of that them.

wards the end of their three years' travellers suffer from sickness. In 1924-25, the first year of opera-balance-sheets will mess with con parture will be welcomed. Sir Ian for more information in company term de Rector and this new de All through the 47,000 miles no This, like sea-sickness, in a matter tion of the combine company siderable support in all circles. Hamilton has made his mark as a serious mechanical trouble delayed medies; but some obstinate cases by British air-liners.

for the individual. There are re Imperial Airways, letters carried Too many companies slump LD- the flyers. Invariably the squa

bout 200,000 and the, parcel hail all sources, including withdrawals This is not the first cocasion on numbered gather in, one item earnings from writer as well as a soldier, and the drons kept to their pre-determined appear to be incurable.

occasion should be a memorable one, time schedule, implying a high de

weighed about 40,000 pounds. The from reserves, and the shareholder which distinguished members of the gree of skill, in pilotage and serial

ollowing year saw an advance to is left to wonder what are the pro- Bervices have held the Rectorship navigation among the personnel and

500,000 Tetters and nearly 60,000 portions of profits derived from in Edinburgh,--Field Marshal Ear! fine trustworthiness in the aero-

pounds of goods, and at the end actual trading and investments and Kitchener of Khartoum held the planes and aero engines employed.

of another twelve months the whether any part of the profits is Actually, since the first long dis

figures were respectively more than non-recurring or otherwise of a post in 1914 and Admiral Eart tance Service cruises undertaken

9,000,000 and 80,000 pounds. At exceptional nature.

Beatty in 1917. soon after the war, no Royal Air LARGE LANDING-GROUNDS the present time, according to the

Rare Scottish Volumes. Force formation has ever failed to NO LONGER ESSENTIAL

latest available statistics, letters keep to time, a record which, benga

fair-borne during the year amount though it finds no place among the

A very rare Scottish book will be more spectacular speed and height or is said to have solved the cel mail to approximately 100,000 The bookings for next year's is an unbound and incut quarto offered at Sotheby's next week. It London, Nov. 29-A British into more than 6,000,000 and the par- exploite recognized international problem of landing af aeroplane pounds. Expressed differently. nir

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·BRAKES FOR PLANES

RECORD OF IMPERIAL AIRWAYS

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Pipers in the Fageant At Aldershot

Tattoo."

Edinburgh Rectorial Address.

achievement in the history of aviato a standstill on aloping ground eight years and airborne goods by menced and one of the features is 2000 by Thomas Finlason," and

tion:

BAGHDAD AIR PORT

BASTERN OLAPHAM

JUNCTION

The invention is a braking device 50 per cent to be a great muster of massed pipiauld at Midreis Wynd Heidi bands in Highland pre-war full i entitled "Ane Act and Ordin and it is claimed to be as efficient The way of the airline operator dress uniform, we understand. The ance set down by the Lords of sa the braking systeme used for has not been easy. Diffulties in event, which attracted close on hait Privie Counsell and Session, anent motor cars. It consists of a rubber evitable in the development of an a million spectators this summer, is the Pryces to be taken herofrer tube Inside the landing wheels entirely new method of transport, fed to being next year on June (sic) be the Clerks and Writers, which is covered with brake shoes, with no guiding background of ex- 10, with the final performance ca bering Publick Function and The moment the machine has touch peristics, have been augmented and June 17, the theme chosen for the Office within this Kingdong ed the ground the pilot pute his supplemented by obstruction and spectacle being "King and Coun- also rent the Pryces of foot on the brake, which is pedal hampering regulations in many try with a scene from Siege of Signet and anent Chalmer mimilar to that used on cars and lands Aeroplanes have never pos Delhi in the Indien Mutiny as Enis? As far as can be traced the the inside of the type is inflated Bossed freedom of the air com the main incident depicted. The only other copy of this volume is in: Baghdad is now the busiest air with air and the shoe brakes apply parable for a moment with the pageantry of the Tattoo will out the Signet Library in Edinburgh port in the East Lines of air 100 per cent contact,

*freedom of Bea enjoyed from timeline a review of the progress of Another Pinlason book in the sale traffic converge on this point from Tests made by a tyre company imiremorial by merchant ships arms and warfare from the days of the translator's own copy of London, India, Africa, France, who are responsible for the inven

Regiam Majestatem. The Auld Indochina, Holland and Bataviation have been Highly successful,

of single combat to mechanised war, which i ion Lawes and for and any spasmodic flights in the and aeronautical experts: regard valua of aircraft in the past hún to the massed pipe hands muster, lend 2 tran direction of Persia leo. There are the new device as a most important been greatly limited owing to the 300 men in torchlight drill and 400 in Scottish lang about, one hundred arrivals and de- development. Others vantages of distance which su ser --partures or sine aru, every month, the new.kya and as air tre developin, Bagh wheels TO:

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