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AERIAL GUNNERY IS
NOW PART OF ARMY
Schools for Drilling Recruits
Who Expect to Join Air Corps
of English and French.
MEN SPECIALIZE IN WORK
(Cerrespondenrs of Tha Associated Press.)
London, March 20. The superior
ity of the English and French air
craft, which was frequently asserted
in offilial statements from the entente
tide last year, is less pronounced this
year, according to the British' corre
spondents at the front. This is due to
the appearance ot several new type3
of German machines, chiefly modeled,
it is said, en Jrencli imf, British de
signs nd known as the Albatros,
Halberstadt, Ago, Roland and the
new Fokker.
The majority of them have fixed
cylinder engines,' giving about 160 to
200 horsepower. ' Afcw retain the
rotary' engines with which the Ger
mans achieved some success in the
Fokker two years ago, but these
rotary engines are seldom ' of niore
than 130 horsepower. 1
' Speed of Machines. '.
The new German machines have a
speed of about 120 miles an hour, but
their chief feature is their ability for
climbing. Ordinarily they frequent
the 14,000-foot levels, and they have
been observed on picket duty as high
as 20,000 feet. The latest German
order for airplane engines is said to
have specifications designed to give
their machines a radius of action up
to at least 30,000 feet.
Meanwhile the British air service
is putting forth strenuous exertions
to keep ahead of its rival. ' Only .In
part is this a question of planes and
engines. It also involves the prob
lems of more skillful pilots, and in
this direction of training the British
service has expanded extraordinarily.
After a class of military aviators
have passed through their .course of
training on the slower types of school
machines, thqse . who show; special
aptitude are passed on to the "scout
schools," where they are given a spe
cial c6urse in what is commonly
called "aerobatics," which involves
the use of the highest speed machines
and , handling them acrobatically in
the air, as is necessary in air fighting.
The instructors carry on sham fights
in the air with their pupils, armed
with cameras instead , of guns, , ,
' Aerial Gunnery Schools) ' ! '
Then there are the post-graduate
aerial gunnery schools. The most ex
pert pilot in the world is useless as
a fighting man if he does not thor
oughly understand his machine gun,
for a perfect-flyer, with,' a jammed gun
is of little use against a merely mod
erate pilot who is a crack shot and a
real gun master, combination oi
the .two is the .desideratum, as,, for
example, in the case of a young pilot
recently mentioned in dispatches
whose engine stopped dead at a
height of 15,000 feet when he was
being: attacked by. two German aero
planes. Despite this loss of motive
power, forcing him to descend con
stantly, he shot down one enemy ma
chine, drove the .other away, and
glided into his own lines undamaged.
The work of the aviator has become
highly specialized in the course of the
last twelve months. At the British
aviation camps along the front in
France, there are separate squadrons
of machines for reconnaissance, in
fantry contact, photography, artillery
spotting and bomb dropping and, in
almost every instance, squads of these
machine! may only accomplish their
duties successfully when they are pro
tected from enemy attack by ma
chines of a type comparable to the
torpedo boat destroyers of a naval
fleet.
For these destroyer machines high
speed, high climbing ability and high
flying and maneuvering power are
essential. Some tof the newer British
machinea of this type are said to
show a. speed of over 150 miles an
hour,' .. , , . ,
Ismay Advocates
Ship Armament to
Resist Submarine
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
London, March 25. Building of
last liners capable of strong defensive
armament against submarine attack,
instead of concentrating upon the
construction of tramp steamers of low
speed, was advocated by J. Bruce
Ismay, chairman of the London War
Risks' association, at the annual
meeting of that organization. Refer
ring to the government's plan of ship
building, he said:
"An association such as ours, repre
senting the liner interests in Liver
pool, London and Glasgow, is war
ranted in uttering a warning against
the policy of concentrating on the
building of nothing but tramp ton
natre of low speed. It is the liners
which have carried and are still car'
rying the bulk of the nation's food
supplies, and of the cotton and wool
required in our factories.
Jt is the liners that have proved
by, their speed, manning and defensive
armament best able to meet the sub
marine peril. There is no necessity
and no desire to install at present,
passenger accommodation in new
ships, but it is of the first importance
that the building of the liner of great
carrying. capacity and of good speed
should be pushed on as rapidly as the
building of any other type of vessel."
Air. Ismay said the premiums paid
on insured vessels. had covered 95 per
cent ot. tne losses on all voyages
started since the beginning of the
war. Losses sustained from the
activities' of the,; German raiders
Linden. Karlsruhe. Moewc and sub
marines, had been heavy but that they
should be almost covered by pre
miums at the rate of little over' 1
per cent per month was a magnificent
tribute to the navy.
"SINKHOLE OF VICE"
CLEANED BY ARMY
Notorious Port Said, Egypts
Social Gutter, Improves in
Morals and Health.
SOLDIERS FLOG SINNERS
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
Port Said, Egypt, Feb. 10. When
the war broke out Port Said held
the reputation, as indeed .t had held
from time imm.'morial, of being the
wickedest city from a moral stand
point of any place oi. the face of the
srlobe. Into this oort the flotsam and
jetsam of the underworld drifted from
all parts of the universe. Here every
type ot vice imaginable was repre
sented. But today, after thirty
months of military rue, the "Sinkhole
of the Last is well nigh a model
city, the iron hand of the army hav
ing cleaned it uo as no other power
could have done. Something of the
transformation which has been
wrought was told to a correspondent
of The Associated Press who has
been touring the east.
, When the military first took hold
of affairs in Port Said gambling,
drinking and vice of all sorts was
rampant. Letters which were inter
cepted by the censor showed that
traffic in women was thriving.
Now most of this has beet, stopped,
military law enabling the authorities
to deal with situations over which
the civil courts had no control. That
street of international notoriety, Rue
Babel, so named because of the many
languages spoken by its inhabitants,
has ceased to thrive as the leader of
the world's iniquity. Many of its vice
leaders have been sent away from the
country; certain forms of vice which
could not be eliminated have been re
stricted, and one can walk the streets
without being bes?t by the denizens
of Uie underworld. Even drinking
I as been limited and it is impossible
now to procure intoxicating liquors
excepting between the hours of 1 and
3 in the afternoon and 6 and 9 in the
evening.
The cleaning up has been largely
i.i the hand3 of Lieutenant Colonel
P. G. Elgood, acting under instruc
tions from the commander-in-chief,
General Sir Archibald Murray.
Crusaders Flog Citizens.
Flogging is one of the most ef
fective punishments used to meet the
situation in Fort Said arid it is no
nursery chastisement that is meted
out by the military authorities. What
less vigorous punishment would the
average father, mother, brother or
sister of the world suggest, asks Col
onel Elgood.
As a result of the measures insti
tute crime has decreased 50 per
cent a.'d disease has dropped at least
40 per i'nt, according to the latest
figures available. One of the most ef
fective regulations put into force has
been that relating to drink. By vir
tually eliminating drunkenness a
great . stride was made toward the
suppression of crime and vice, much
of which was the direct result of in
toxication. There was a time early in
the war when the authorities hesi
tated to let soldiers take their leave
in Port Said, as much trouble re
sulted. Now, however, hundreds of
Tommies are about the city on holi
day all the time and are giving the
officials no cause for worry.
One of the striking changes is in
the lighting of the city, which is now
in total darkness at night. The re
strictions on lighting were put into
effect because of the submarine men
ace, the lights of the port having fur
nished a beacon for the under-water
boats, but lack of lights has greatly
assisted in the suppression of vice as
comparatively few people venture out
into the darkened streets.
France Protests
Against Going on
The Water Wagon
(Correspondence or The Associated Press.)
Paris, March 25. Premier Briand's
project to abolish the consumption of
alcohol as a beverage in France by
decree, announced to the chamber of
deputies-when he presented his reor
ganized cabinet, is still nothing but a
project. Parliament has not yet acted
upon the premier's request for au
thority to settle urgent questions by
decree and in the meantime the vague
underground resistance to the reform
has become open and aggressive.
France is not going dry without a
struggle.
The republican committee of indus
try and commerce, an organization
mostly of business men and politi
cians who belong to the radical party,
recently adopted resolutions hostile to
prohibition. A strong group of sen
ators and a stronger combination of
deputies have pronounced against it.
The loss cf a few hundred million
francs of revenue of the government
at a time when millions count is used
with effect.
The brandy and liqueur associa
tions call attention to the fact that, if
the consumption of alcoholic bever
ages is prohibited in France, 1hey
cannot be exported to America under
existing regulations. This is an effec
tive argument in view of the im
portance to France of maintaining her
exportations and reducing the balance
of trade against her.
The resources of the opposition
may be understood when it is remem
bered that the thirty-one principal al
cohol producing departments of
France have a population of more
than 20,000,000, more than half the
total population of France. The 2,
000,000 fruit growers are not opposed
to restrictive measures that might
to restrictive mesures.
CONSERVATIVES WIN
JAPANESE ELECTION
Movement Led by Count
Okuma for More Represent
ative Government Fails.
HISTORY OF STRUGGLE
TOKIO, April 21. The indications
are that the administration has won
the elections. The result will be
close and many outlying districts are
still to be heard from.
The campaign which has just ended
in Japan marked an important point
in the struggle for a more representa
tive form of government in which the
victory apparently has been won by
the opponents of such reforms. Count
Okuma, leader of the movement for
representative government, although
having a majority in the house 'of
representatives, was replaced last
year as premier by Count Terauchi,
one of the most uncompromising op
ponents of the new school which
threatened to revolutionize the form
of government. Count Terauchi's
avowed political slogan is a "no-party
form of government."
The fall of Count Okuma resulted
in a sharp attack on the Terauchi
ministry, on the ground that it was
not representative of the controlling
elements in the house of representa
tives. The house was dissolved last
January and new elections were orr
dered. Opponents of the Terauchi
regime attacked the premier for dis
solving the house and such men as
Yukio Ozaki, Japan's great progres
sist; Saburo Shimada, president of
the house of representatives, and T.
Taketomi, former minister of com
munications, vigorously assailed the
Air Service Man Flies
Over Valley of Lilies,
(Correspondence of. The. Associated Frees.)
London, April 2. A British officer
on duty with the air service in East
Africa includes in one of his reports a
graphic description of an immense
valley filled with the huge arum lit
lies over which he flew somewhere in
the region of Zanzibar. As he passed
over the valley he was 8,000 feet high,
but the perfume of the lilies reached
his nostrils. t, ,, .,
By means of his glasses he observed
that the lily flowers were'as large as
elephants' ears, and that the whole of
the valley had been monopolized by
the beautiful flowers. The luxuriance
of the vegetation was particularly re
markable. He learned later that the
scent of the flowers was so overpow
ering in the valley that no native had
ever dared to penetrate within its
borders.
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government at campaign rallies.
M. Ozaki, in particular, took Up
the constitutional issue, declaring that
the abrupt dissolution of the house in
the face of the majority was against
the spirit of the constitution. He
urged the people to prevent repeti
tion of such an occurrence, saying,
"the present cabinet believes that the
national policies should be handled
by a small group of officials and is
not respecting the public."
Five Months for Publishing
Articles Reflecting on Officials
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
Tokio, April 2. Daikichiro Tagawa,
a former member of the Diet and
under secretary of state, has been
sentenced to five months' imprison
ment for publishing an article re
garded as reflecting upon the dignity
of the imperial house. The article
elaborated upon the activity of the
elder statesmen in connection with
their recommendation to the emperor
to appoint Count Terauchi premier in
succession to Marquis Okuma.
The editors of several other ma
gazines which reproduced the article
were convicted and sentenced or fined.
Italian Newspapers Urge
Borrowing Money in America
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
Rome, April 2. The Popolo Ro
mano and other newspapers urge the
Italian treasury to contract new loans
in America, not for the money in it
self, but to be able to pay with it
what Italy needs to import from the
United States without further in
creasing the exchange rate, which has
reached 7.80 lire for each dollar, a
loss of 53 cents on a dollar. They
observe that the loans of Italy in
America are smaller than those of
any of the other entente allies, reach
ing only $50,000,000.
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