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·GERMAN EXPERT ON RESTORING TRADE.

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"Both the payment - of the indemnity and the delivery of} | their producta in ratorn for | raw material and food should be arranged in such a way that the German worker is persuaded that, even if the actual result of) his labour goes abroad, it is really going where it is wanted, and where its use is really of reciprocal

eneat to himself.

EXPORT IN HOPE OF RETUAN.

"For instance, it must be brought to his realisation that coal going to France is really helping Germany, because it is [helping to restore peata con- that they are the slowest craft ditions in Europe generally, and that could possibly be employed.jonly when those conditions are It is clear, therefore, that airships, restored can Germany bops to get THE TON-MILE BASIS, in order to qualify for such ser- a proper amount of food and raw

vices, must be given a speed materials,”

Members of the Government i Major C. C. Turner writes in at least as good. Bigger and

superior airships to any of the hava recently been in the coal the Observer ****

Nox, for the first time since existing types were referred to regions on a campaign designed aerial navigation began, we have by Air Commodore Maitland, and to persuade the German miner authoritative estimates of the although their speed capabalities to produce more coal; already cost of establishing and running were not precisely forecast, we the output shows real signs of air services, and these contain may be sure that they will be increase. very remarkable figures, presentable to do seventy miles par

TO BUY SHIPS. ing striking contrasts and offer-Lour.economically.

If the assurance as to this ca-

Shipping, 100 constitutes a ling suggestive comparisons. The

figures recently given by Air not be given quite definitely, say serious factor, he pointed oat. the oppopante of airships, not To pay the indemnity we must engineer, na transport manage export. Having no ships we must and no capitalist will pay any pay freights in foreign money. airship pro-This constitutes such a burden attention to me

In other words, the on our export trade as to make it | position.

of airships most almost impossible.” advocates

Admitting that it is no use Kuarantee an economical speedi exceeding by ten or fifteen miles demanding, as do the Pan-Ger- per hour that of any existing cans, the return of the ships,

Dr. Mueller suggested that. Upe.

Given that assurance, the extra. "The Epients should lease ordinarily low running costs, the frertain ships to us, and by work- for immensely longing them ourselves, and paying capacity journeys, and the superior load-certain fixed freights, we should carrying qualities must place the gradually buy them back.

"Having los: airship.in an established position

Commodore Maitland cover now

ground, and are the result of post-war experience; they con- cern airships solely. Estimates of the running costs of arroplanes have been many times attempted, and it may be remembered that the present writer last year stated that various experis differ- ed. from each other over a range extending from 15s, to £2 per ton per milo carried.

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For purposes of comparison it is necessary to have a recognised basis, and the ton-mile basis is very suitable, although it leaves out the important factor of speed, in transport. It could do what passessions we no longer need which must therefore be discuss no aeroplane yet in existence can ships on colonial routes, so that Equally. of course, the the number required would not ed separately. Air Commodore do.

account of its be very large." Maitland ad pts it in his aeroplane, on estimates, bringing the figure for superior speed, would have s airships down to the surprisingly rar sort "eld" to itself that of BOLSHEVIJM'S WESTERN LIMIT short distance With expert Enowledge and small sum of 25. 94. (with a comparatively

services. forecast that a very considerable

personal experience at his com- The running cost of aeroplanemand, Dr. Moeller may be quoted reduction will soon be possible). Dealing with aeroplanes, Major-services is by romparison very with considerable authority on General Sir S. Brancker does not high. It is so high that, general-the subject of Russia and what use this methol, but it is easy by speaking, only one class of goes with it-Bolshevism.

load can be carried with advant- Bolshevism, he believes, "will age both to sender and carrier. not come West."

a simpla calculation from the figures he gives to arrive at the result of about 19s. per ton per

mile.

mails; although, as the London stand that in the complexities of That class of load is, of course. ↑ "The Garman workers under- The airship estimate provides Paris services show, there is a modern civilisation Bolshevism

complete organisation, certain amount of remunerative is impossible. allowing for heavy capital ont-erial transport in the form of lay, interes: on capital, insurance, light, costly, and urgent parcels.

for ก

and so forth. The more moderate

MAILS AT A PROFIT.

They realise it is only possible in primitive Asiatic conditions.

"As now developing, Bolshevism is really a peasant movement and

of the aeroplane estimates, per- As to mails, so many letters goin sending a large number of bapa, do not allow enough for frequent landing places, relays.1 lb. that at little or no excess people back to the soil is working. fee a paying load can be made towards a settlement of the land and reserve personnel. But in

ip, and that even on the assump-question." any case the difference between the two extremes is so great thation that the machine only takes 50 per cent. of its fall load. To at Sst glance the aeroplane ap- pears to be quite out of the run- ning

carriers

hould

be

BERLIN SOVIET FREOF.

put this on the right basis it As evidence that Germang is appears that the aeroplane as not fruitful ground forBolshevism. mail carrier should be used only Dr. Mueller pointed out that PHOGRESS AGAINST THE WISH, on routes where there is plenty though in Berlin alone there are i business traffic, and that the between 60,000 and 70,000 The aeroplane, however, is a

given Russians, they bad not proved in very much faster craft, and

cuarantees of a certain minimum any way an effective instrument speed in this case means not only loud for each journey. time-saving, it reduces the num-

Ultimately it may be possible for propagating Bolshevist ideas. "Eren HI Socialists," h: ber of days on which no progress to present a more favourable bill added. "recognise that this is no: Ican be made against head winds.

o running costs. not only for the time, nor is Germany the No regular services by aircraft

aeroplanes, but even for airabins country, for the making of great fare possible save on the assurance

But even on the present basis, Sozialistic experiments. that a great deal of time can be

assuming the airship's speed can saved even in the journeys which increased, there is a great the wind opposes. Even a cross-field" of enterprise open to both wind greatly increases the time occupied by a flight..

An air vehicle is affected by the full velocity of the stream of air in which it is travelling. Thas, a 100-miles-per-hour machine. Fing against a 50 miles-zn-hour wind, covers the ground at a net speed of only 30 miles an hour. And since at the moderate height of 3,000 to 5,030 feet, on a large majority of days in the year, the air is moving at more than 30 miles per hour, and quite frequently at between 45 and 50 miles per hour, aircraft must have a big margin of air speed."

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"Only rich countries can afford

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Dr. Mueller does not believe that Russia will bave any coro for export offer for the next five or six years.

Nor does he believe goods of any kind can be exported to say appreciable amount in the im- mediate present future.

There is a great demand in Rossin itself, owing to the decline of production, and no means for transport to the coast, even if s SIES LEOTD (JUHOLET-fem-odó-million tons may ha

stored here and there.. Mrs. Llord George, who was the first Welsh lady magistrate, took her seat recenty on the Beach at Partmadoc, where the Prime Minister first gured as ou

GERMANI FOR RUSSIA, advocate. Dr. Livingstone Davies, the chairman, said that Mrs. Lloyd George would render On the other band, the suggest- valuable assistance to the Bench. ed sending of Germans technical Mr. Joha Humphries, on behalf workers to Russia finds his ap of the Bar, said it was most proval essential to have the aid of women when dealing with offences.

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juvenile any country to do that," he said, "both because of our geographical proximity and because there are many Germans who know Russia and ite language.

There is no airship in existence that has an "economical speed" of more than about fifty-five miles per hour. "Maximum speed" it all right for emergencies, but it must not be the basis of calcu lations for commercial services. It is extravagant of fuel, and it exhausts the engines. The critics of the airship assert that all the bistoric long voyages of these craft have been made in "select-Richmond, Hme. Rouche,ers in Russia, we might form a Frenchwoman, aged 70, was link between Russis on the one found burnt to death in her band, and England and America bedroom recently. A policeman, on the other."

ed westber, and that the R34 in its double cros-ing of the Atlantic travelled at an air-speed never more than fifty miles per hour.

WOMAN PIPE SMOKER BURKT TO DEATH.

Living alone, at 113, Kew-road,

"With German technical work-

noticing the fire, burst open the Reverting to the general quest door of the bedroom, and found ton of Rossis and the future of MORE SPEED DEM'NDED. the woman lying in a corner its great social experiment, Lod dead. Looking round, he noticed concluding bis remarks, Dr. The slowest of the aeroplanes tobacco pipe on the floor nest Mueller said: 01 the London-Continental

"When the Western Powers It is thought that as Mme. commence trade with Russia, THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY services have an economical the bed, filled ready for smoking.

speed of seventy or seventy-two Rouche was preparing for a capitalism is bound taretur, and miles per hour; and although smoke a lighted match caught Bolshevism will be modified in they are doing remarkably well, her dress or the bed clothes, and accordance with the realities of it is universally acknowledged set them on fire.

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