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An additional modification the Puss Moth cabin seroplano has been ordered by the Aig Ministry in a notice to aircraft owners and. ground engineers. This is a more urgent orger than the one issued on November 12, which allowed an interval of two months, for the alterations. The present notice, dated November 28, sets a limit of 10 days, alter which no such aeroplane, if unmodified, may be

London, Dec. 6-Announcement vour single control of all of the of the terms of the inter-Depart- main Empire trunk air routes, mental Committee's report on Aus leaving internal and "feeder's ser tralian commercial air services, vices only to local operation. The and especially the recommendations company would desire to run the an establishment of the England-air line all the way to the ter Australia airway, has led to minal station at Port Darwin, the keen discussion in British sir cir claim is based on the wide experi cles. The report is published alence of long distance air ins from the date of completion of the and on important points of or Aeronautical Research Committee most thirteen years to the day operation possessed by the concern first flight between England and i ganisation such As maintenance,

Australia; on December 10, 1910, the Australian airman brothers Ross and Keith Smith landed at Port Darwin at the end of a twenty-eight days' journey from

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The new order follows the inves tigation of certain accidents to Fuss Moth seroplanes by the

One of these was the accident near Farnham, nt the end of July in which Mrs. A. C. Bossom, her son,.

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In these two substantial vo lumes English readers are present ed with the most considerable trea ties of a general kind in Englian on the Dutch Empire in the East since Sir Hesketh Bell's invaluable work, In view of the lamentable ignorance which prevails in this country concerning the administra tive experiments and policies of the Dutch in their Colonial Em pire, any such book as this must be warmly welcomed.

This is a book to read slowly and thoroughly, to enjoy, atid to read agning for it revives an age and a people which, although near to us in time measured by yours, are in many respects more allen and remote than the civilizations. of 2,000 years ago. The period in roughly from 1810 to 1840, the scene covers much of the western mountains of North America, and the action is built up of the achievements of men conquering a continent, as they trapped and tradéd, Much of the material used: Profound Theories. The first volume: is a mine of is historical in both character ideas, not only on colonial govern and incident, and, the whole work ment in Indonesia, but on the reflects its subject with that free whole philosophy of government dom from distortion and smoothe and on what can only be called the surface that only come through the spiritual contacts of Eastern and long scouring of fiction with the Western civilizations. Many of grinding powder of ascertained these ideas, suggest or embody pro- fact. found theories regarding the pos- There is no plot of the type that sibilities of synthesis between the cultural outlooks of Eastern and permits descriptive summary, for Western peoples; but ever philoso-n construction the book is essen- tially biographical A prologue, phers will find them, again and set several years before the begin- little related to the actual grim duces Colonel Boone when, as a again, too abstract, that is, too ning of the story itself, intro-

supplies, and uniformity of method. and supervision.

Australian opinion, as expressed and a young friend wore killed in the official report, favour a co- The committee's report has not operative service in which Austra yet been completed: The Accidents That a regular airway bringing lians planes would assure

the Sub-Committee of the Aeronauticat Sydney and Melbourne within only route between Singapore and Dar-; Research Committes came to the seventeen days travel of London win. Negotiations in London, conclusion that a probable cause of should be contemplated after so helped by the advice and keen in certain accidents was Butler of the brief a lapse of time from that terest of Mr. Stanley Bruce; the rudder, and experiments were made first great fight is a measure of Australian Resident Minister, with a view of finding means for the astonishing advance of civil may be expected to clear up this preventing the danger. The modi aviation in the intervening years point. Ons possible solation, sug. cation consists of the simple ex And the service, once established, gested in messages received hers pedient of fitting a weight to the in certain to be accelerated from from Melleume, is that an Anglo- tion of the rudder, enough to make leading edge of the balance por time to time till the chief Austra Australian company in which Im

the rudder statically balanced realities of Eastern life. Tho distant from the English capital- fully represented should operate

grooved-barrelled firearm at a rate of travel which many Bri- from Singapors onwards; whether Tangements have been made for volume give perhaps as good an shooting match and demonstrate tish experts believe to be capable the suggestion would be welcomed the constructors of the aeroplan idea of ita scope as can be given ite superiority over all other types of instant materialization if mailar by the English concern is not to supply mass balance of the type is short compass. They are then in existence. only be carried over the route by known because up to the present prescribed. The official notice re- The Meeting of East and West,"

commends that until the modifica "The Call of Leadership," The Boone passes on to his pioneering relays of aeroplanes mostig night the company quite naturally de- tion is carried out, Fuss Moths Spirit of the West, The Soul of work in the mountains and the and day."

cline to comment on this or any should be flown only at speeds the East, The Synthesis of Cul story begins with the resolve of his other proposal connected with ma terialisation of the Australia air

less than 105 miles an hour and in tures," Empire Building in the grandson, Andrew Burnett, to fol

Ancient World,” “The Moderniza 1 low, in his footsteps. As he jour- way.

lian cities are less than a week perial Airways would be power about the line of the hinges Aheadings of the chapters in this young man, he was the first to use

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The second volume mi

might almost tion that may follow but will never future internal Australian lines its commercial importance, should ler and Mr. Mollison have crossed ferent subject but for the fact that will radiate, is to be put out to be under British control from end the Atlantic in the same type. there are constant references to the -tender. Here two theories of to end. And there are many eco preceding it, which required the This second volume is much more The present order and the one theories, and principles of the first. operation are in rivalry. It is nomie and technical advantages in strengthening, of certain portions objective and should be of consi known that Imperial Airways fa employing throughout British perof the fuselage, are therefore of derable use to British colonial ad- sonnel and flying matériel con- some importance, and the full reministrators in the planning of atructed to Empire-standards.

port of the committee on the Farn-major policy. If the first volume ham accident will be awaited with is a mine of ideas, this is a mine interest.

of facts. It is deliberately, not an The public, seems to be insatiable exhaustive survey of the Dutch in its demand for mystery and hor. East Indies, and it is not always ror: perhaps as a reaction from & quite up to date in minor detail life which became increasingly but, broadly speaking, it is a sort safe and stereotyped in detail. Mr. of Simon Report without the de Hammett's collection, which seems tail on the Dutch possessions in to owe a good deal to American HOW BRITISH DESIGNS

the East. It is perhaps rather sources, has the advantage of being HAVE HELPED

more historical than the Bimor quite new, and it is noticeable tha– Disputants as to the relative values of the biplane and the

Report, even auch subjects as law it finds very small space for the monoplane are about to have their signs has already had the notable proached by tracing the successive conventional item in the book

British glider and sailplane de- and justice, or education being ap- old-fashioned" ghost, The mos argumenta resolved. Two

and also the most charming-is effect of increasing the speed of trends of Dutch policy. chines, similar in load, power these motorless aeroplanes without

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