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Eproposed that the

under ordinary mainly these tri

„farmers

should reco sise Koltchak, been carried out for

sal and untold may be of interest to recali" mess

has been ow Admiral Koltobak came to

uditions, buf: allo to pasa unchecked at one in power in Siberia On this

have taken of the largest Royal Air Force M. paint some valuable information place in the South of England, depots in England, says a Doily Anderson

given in a statement com- particularly in Dorset, where the Wees correspondent. On the plea wimbly municated to La Humoatte by Mr. Wolfryn electro-chemical process that there is a shortage of coal. W. Bem Sionim, an ex-member of the was invented by Mr. H. E. Fry, at the Eastern Area Repair Moore Bennett Constituent Assembly, who was of Godman stone, near Dorches Depot at Henlow, a few miles Mrs. H M Brown present both at Ufs and at Omsk ter-The results attained have from Hitchin, all kinds of & Mr. F. E as a witness of the circumstances increased the popularity of aeroplanes, new, serviceable, Brookman

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J. T. Kidd J. A. Lammers A H. Lanings Mr. and Mrs.

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Lauritsen

Mine Leiria Capt. Liddell

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Mr Liddell

Maj & Mrs. Black aster Blas Capt. and Mrs.

Branch ofrer T. Break G. Browell

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N. Burus

C. L. Corby Croucher RS Crocker.

Cumming

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Mrs. S. Clarence and children.

Carvalho

W. T. Contts F. W. Cox

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Miss E-Renault Miss K. Enanson Miss AL Fowler

M. G. Grylls

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D. MacLeod John Merde

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J. F. Mendelssohn EJ. Mahon

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Miss V. Mason

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and preserved for future use. The fabric on many of the planes that Mr. Gox-C. E. Seybt. have been lying idle at the various Mr. E. Gardner Skinner serodromes in the Eastern area C. Grzeme has perished, and is classed as

H. B. Gallop useless.

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Batstone Mr. & Mrs F. K T. L. Batstone D. Niblett W. A. Batterfield Misa Philips Capt. G. L Baker T. L. Ferking

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which he describes.. Further con- the process and though and obsolete, have been Mrs. H. Bodice firmation of his statement is farmers

class are, deliberately chopped up and Capt. W. Black given in the Otelchesteenaye perhaps not without good used as firewood in the huts and Y. & Mrs. BE Fedomosti, quoted by the Russian reason, intensely conservative, canteens. People's Information Bureau.

Henlow may be described as a E R. Boericks impression of the treatment in the As is already known, the southern counties is indicated by sort of miniature Slough, bat in Mrs. E R. Bellios meeting of members of the Con- the fact that firms of seedsmen an aggravated form. At Slough an R. J. Birbeck tituent Assembly in Ufa elected have taken out licences in many unnecessary scheme was persistir. & Mrs. a so-called All-Russian Govém other parts of the country and. ed in; at Henlow the art of Bisney ment or Directorate. The ple having erected at their own cast destruction, practised by technic sident of this directorato was the plantor electrifying seeds and are al experts, has resulted in a week- famous Avksentiev, Right Social-recommending electrically charg-ly wastage that staggers the lay Revolutionary while its members ed seads to their customers. A mind. The amount of wastage as consisted of equal members of case in point is that of Messrs. Grepresented in pounds, shillings Cadets (Constitutional Democ- Wheeldon, Limited, corn mar-and pence, I was told to-day in rats) and Social Revolutionaries chants, of Derby, and Messrs. F. making exhaustive inquiries, of the Right The Government Wright, Limited, corn merchants, reaches a figure that is simple

of Ashbourne, who have combined astounding." was elected in some" way or another Government without in the erection of a plant in Derby.

...OFFICIAL EXCUSES, The process consists in passing machinery. government

The official excuses for destroy-N. without an Army that is to into the seed for a certain length say, without material force and of time, which differs with eaching these seroplanes are that they with hardly any moral authority. sort of seed, a comparatively weak have been classed as obsolete, It was composed of weak well-current of electricity. The seed that there is no further use for intentioned individuals whose is rendered permeable to the cur- them now that the war is over, only guilt consisted in assuming reat by being first soaked in a and that they can be put to no power which they did not know solution of some metallic salt practical use either in the Royal how to wield. Therefore no one After the electrification the salt Air Force or in the ordinaryR Y. Cameron took them seriously and when is run off and the seed removed channels of civilian industry. An they disappeared, overthrown by from the tank and dried. Inex- obsolete aeroplane, argues theMrs. EA a bandful of officers, no one took perienced workers are warned by Air Ministry, is worse than an their part, and after a few days the patentees that the drying is obsolete battleship, because it is An obsolete their existence was forgotten. delicate part of the operation, utterly useless. The Cadet.

of that and that the germination of seeds battleship can be sold to the section Government, having come to an which are over-dried or dried at shipbreakers, but no one wants agreement among themselves and too high a temperature may be an obsolete aeroplane. There- with Admiral Koltebak, com-

fore it must be destroyed. impaired.

The basis of the process is the For some time past-exactly missioned a group of officers to CATTY out the

theory that every seed has electric how long I have been unable d'erat. coup During the night of November capacity. Assuming that theory to discover the unwanted 18th, 1918, a small group of to be sound, then the effect of the aeroplanes have been coming into officers, led by a colonel, arrested Wolfryn process is but to add to the Henlow depot at the average D. A. Freecorn the whole Left section of the All- the permanent electrical charge rate of 50 a week. The planes Mrs. A. Frazer Russian Government including which resides in every vegetable are taken to the salvage depart. Gage its president, Axksentier: The product; but perhaps the chief ment, where they are stripped of Chas. Garmin next day the remaining Cader disadvantage arises from the fact their wiring, metal fittings, and Garnes section of the Government issued that electricity so added is not instruments, and other salvable Miss J. Gaylord the following decree :

permanent. It leaks away after a parts. In some cases the dope certain time from the seed though has been sucked out of the fabric Mr. & Mrs. H. J.Mr and Mrs. F. "In view of the critical state of expriments would seem to show the Empire and the necessity to that even afterwards, its growth concentrate the whole policy of will in some degree have been the supreme power in the hands affected by the process. Should of one pers, the Council of the treatment become popular in Ministers temporarily agreed the north it will be almost inevit "so hand over all governing power, able that farmers will discover

to Admir Alexander Vas- silievitch Kolchak, conferring on

that, on account of this leakage, him the title Supreme Governor."

Victor Tchernov, the leader of the Social-Revolutionaries and President of the Constituent Assembly was at that time in

R.E.8's F.E. 2 B's, and certain Lt H H. D. Miss M. Vlachos Ekaterinburg, and yet his name The cost is about 14s. for kinds of De Havilands which Hemmel

E. B. Waite does not appear among the signs, sack of wheat, 12s. 6d. have been used for training young Capt. T. P. Hall H. & Wilkinson

a sack of barley, and 11s.officers. But the lay mind receives G. Harper On November 19th, having a sack of oats. These prices are, rece news of the proclamation of course, high on account of the pleasant shock to see air A. Holgersen J. H. Wickers confering rower on Admiral fact that plants are few, and it is mechanics and overalled women H. P. Holzheiser H. Wolf

workers setting about an Koltchak, an emergency session supposed that with increasing plane with hatchets, and axes of the Congress of Members popularity the cost of the process and taking away the chopped-up of the Constituent Assembly would tend to diminish. The in-

pieces in sacks held in а

of crease in yield is said to range And the excuse the public is Royal the Palais

Hotel. from six bushels to as many as asked to swallow is that as there All those present carried rifles sixteen bushels per acre. Ex- is a shortage of coal in the camp, and revolvers. The Congress ceptionally, it may be as little as and, as there is no practical use decided to form from its midst a four bushels per acre. Many of for the woodwork in the wings Capt. H. Ball Committee of seven with ex- the best results have, as a fact, and fuselages the seroplanes have F. G. Backs tensive powers and responsible to been obtained on the poorest been chopped up to make fires in L. E. BOWL the Congress

The following land, but large increases are also the huts. I am assured that every J. J. Barry were elected: Tchernov, Velski, claimed from soil that was known thing that has been done in the A. E. Batt Alkin, Fedorovitch, Brushvit, to have been rich. Horticultural Fomin, and Ivanov. At this seeds are, as yet, in different way of destruction at Henlow is Mr. & Mrs. Chilves S. F. McBrown

"with the cognisance of the Air R. F. Chabb J. B. Meikle session a proclamation dealing case. Experiments are consider- with recent events was drawn up ed promising, but every kind of Ministry and in accordance with. G. Chadwick J. Macfarlane

Choi Shing & son and many ages were typed out seed needs its own special treat Air Ministry orders.

GREAT REPAIRING DEPOT. J. D. Danby at one these proclamationsment, and, apparently, horticul

ated by the Congress tural seeds have not up to the Henlow, when the war broke. P. Douglas ing and in military present responded so satisfactor-out, consisted mainly of a few G. Douglas W. Eborall. cires. When this fact became ity as other kinds of seed.

farmhouses and cottages on each

A. C. Finney kdown a group of soldiers and

side of a by-road to Hitchin.

K. Frye Armistice Day saw it a fully Miss Farrell' the regiments recently returned

developed and equipped repair J. Forest from the front marched to the Armies of the Constituent depot, with a personnel of 6900, FASTER "Palais-Royal": One section Asbembly, is reigning supreme. which has since dwindled down

Fetherston surrounded the botel and others According to Sionim, among to 2,000 including WRAF.ugh entered the private room where those arrested were the three Hundreds of permanent brick

E. P. Fielding the Congress was sitting, dis-members of the Archangel Gov-and stone buildings, some of them. D. Forrest armed all those present, seized a ernment who had just reached very roomy and draped with Mr. & Mrs. Gre considerable quantity of arms Omsk after a fifty-five days' jour- green curtains, have been erected and all the documents, papers, ney. These victims of the corp in the fields. New roads have. W. Good- and proclamations. During the delat were treated with the utmost been constructed and a "emall search 80,000 roubles were found rigour, but their lives e spared branch line connects the depot. Herbert on Volski. At the order of the through the intervention of with the railway station. The J. P. Enghes Commander of the Garison, the Allies' representatives. The whole depot seems to have been Master O. Ham- Colonel Nekrassov, who strived members of the Government laid out with a constructive mes.. at the hotel, all the confiscated were sent abros and the skill somewhat suggestive of Mr. & Mrs. U. J. G. E. Wetton articles were delivered to the members of the Constituent the town-planner. How much Hammes "supreme command of the town. Assembly were thrown into the Air Ministry have spent on Miss F Hammes Miss W Wells

While these incidents were prison.

this depot can only be guessed, taking place, a bomb was hurled Then the White Terror, had its but it is one of those enterprises by an unknown person from a sway. This regime soon aroused which could easily have cost window of the Palais Royal" the population in different parts between half a million and a and exploded, smashing many of Siberia. Between November million. window-panes and wounding, and January there were three It was a general hospital for three officers. Late at night the risings which were crushed with aeroplanes and mechanical tran- Russian, detachme which was an unprecedented cruelty. Under sport during the war, and hun- guarding the

lieved Koltchak's Government freedom dreds of machines passed. by a Czech d

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*SHORTAGE OF COAL.”, it will be convenient that they the 50 machines that have been An average of about 10 out of

Hussey should buy their seeds in the

new and L. H. Hymns" arriving weekly are ordinary state from their seeds-serviceable and have been passed B. Honig men, and themselves take the

as such by the ALD, and some Mr. and Mrs. seeds to an electrifying station, of the obsolete types, although,

Halliday as they night take flour to a still serviceable. have included H Hart miller.

of the Press, and of meeting, it weekly. It is the Int

of association and the the Air Ministry tos

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