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BRITISH CHIEF
Major Sykes Tells How the
Aerial Game, Developed
In War, Will Be .
Followed Up.
MaJ. Gen. Sir F. H. Sykes, chief
of the British Air Staff, in a, recent
address before the London Chamber
, of Commerce drew a word picture
of the prospects of "commercial
aviators in the light of war exper
ience." He said, in part:
"Aviation in any form is hut a
dozen years old and there is some
thing very striking and even pro
phetic in the perfect sequence of
events, when we consider that the
problem of flight should have been
solved just in time to have rendered
possible not only the great part
which aviation has played in . the
struggle and victory we have just
achieved, but also to profit by the
well-nigh incredibie impetus which
the stress of war has given to its de
velopment. So it comes about that
inmost countries aviation is today
a child of war and a military de
velooment cure and simple.
"A feature which, distinguishes
military aircraft from other forms of
warlike preparation lies in the
peaceful and useful employment to
which they, unlike tanks, for in
stance, are also adapted. They con
stitute a means of undertaking pub
lic and political work of the highest
. value. They can be employed in
ooeninar ud far distant and inacces
sible portions of the empire, in sur
vey and mapping, and in postal and
other communication services in
districts as yet unreached by private
enterprise. Aviation is now on the
threshold of a new existence in the
realms of civil and commercial life.
The opportunity is unrivalled, the
conditions ideal, and we must guide
it along right lines.
"Above all, its progress nd de-
velopment must inspire conhdence
on the' part of. the public and the
business community. There must
be no flash in the pan or exploita
tion of a new industry by ignorant
or unscrupulous persons. Sure
Steps are necessary, and no attempt
must be made to achieve the im-
, possible.
There is the technical aspect.
Here we shall pit the brains of our
inventors and engineers against
those of the whole world, and we
have no reason to fear the issue.
In aviation we have gained for our
selves the foremost place in design
and technique of aircraft and en
gines, and British manufacturers
may safely be trusted to maintain
and improve their position. , State
assistance in design and research
work must continue. A policy of
"safety" must prevail and the aerial
"PHmsoir line and the "A-l at
Lloyd's" must brand every British
aircraft with the hallmark of qual
ity and security. (Cheers.) ...
: The risk and danger of flying is
In reality . very much less than, is
ften sBpposed. The improvements
in the design and construction of
aeroplanes and engines have brought
at to a position in which, with pru
dence and judgment, the risks of
Bying are . very small, apart from
the danger attached to the process
af the training of pilots. Even here
the records of our training organiza
tion clearly indicate that a consider
able proportion of the accidents
which occur are due to higher war
training in aerial lighting add form-
ition flying and to tfie the arduous
conditions under which this train
ing is carried out. Even under these
conditions fatal accidents have been
surprisingly few and the aireragehas
" now reached the high figure of 1,170
hours per fatal casualty. Since Jan
nary, 1916, 3,340 officers have been
killed on the western front. The
strenuous nature of the fighting Is
well known, and nearly all these
have been due to battle and only a
small proportion to accidental caus
es. The total flying done during
the same period has been close on
1,000,000 hours, equal to 114 years.
Transatlantic Flight
Major General Sykes, referring
to the prohibition of civil flying dur
ing tfie war, said that the air min
istry fully recognized the necessity
of early action, so that the present
restrictive orders might, as far as
possible, be removed. It had now
been found that the private and do
mestic legislation which, as Lord
Weir had announced, was being pre
pared, depended for its character on
the findings of the international con
ference, and to avoid delaying the
commencement of private flying In
this country a preliminary set of
regulations had been drafted and
'wpuld come into force during the
first few weeks of the new parlia
ment. Proceeding he said:
.This brings me to the subject of
some of the competitions which have
been discussed, and particularly to
the magnificent offer of the Daily
'Mail of 10,000 for the transatlant
ic flight With the enacting of the
interim regulations I have referred
to, this flight will, as far as Great
Britain is concerned, be made open
to all comers, including our friends
in America. It has long been under
consideration at the air ministry
not of course, with. a view to the
prise and last . June arrangements
were seriously commenced with a
view to testing the possibility of
bringing aerial reinforcements from
America, and also of being in a posi
tion to render all possible assistance
to those-wishing to make the at
tempt The problem is not so much
one of endurance of the machine and
personnel, but of navigation, mete
orology, and wireless. As regards
the first, you will appreciate that a
straight course must be kept both
by day and by night, in thick or
-fine weather, in winds whose force
. and direction it is difficult to gauge
in the absence of any fixed points of
reference. For instance, a small
- error in bearing may easily be suf
ficient to miss entirely so small a
point in the Atlantic as the Azores.
v The meteorological difficulties are
due, first to our lack of knowledge
. of upper air conditions in the mid
Atlantic; and, secondly, to the fact
that the prevailing winds- in this
area set from west to east The
Atlantic is large enough for a com
plete low-pressure system to exist
tn the center without being dis
cernible? of measurable at the sides;
u4 this not only adds to the dan-,
GERMAN YOUNGSTERS BESIEGE AMERICAN QUARTERS FOR SWEETS. Major W. E. Marble,
division ordnance officer, photographed with a group of German kiddies at the American headquarters at
Speicher, Germany. The youngsters daily besiege the American quarters for sweets, knowing that their
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gers of actual flight, but also compli
cates the navigational problem. A
large quantity of meteorological
data exists for the mid-Atlantic, but
it is all founded on manners reports
of conditions from sea level. There
is generally a belt of 200 or 300
miles of fog around Newfoundland,
and, unless a strong westerly wind
is blowing, the weather -is always
changeable, so that it may generally
be predicted that when the wind is
assisting the flight westwards, the
weather is stormy, with thick cloud
and with rain and mist on the coast
cf Ireland.
The acomplishment of this flight
demands an organization capable of
centralizing at the. starting point
all information about the immediate
weather conditions all along the
route, in order that the raie oppor
tunities when suitable conditions ex
ist may be seized. The fact, coupled
with the complementary fact that
existing machines, even if navigated
with extreme accuracy, have a very
small margin of endurance beyond
the distance to be accomplished, has
led to the conclusion that this flight
should not be undertaken lightly and
should be viewed at present as a
demonstration rather than a com
mercial proposition.
As regards overland projects,
among the many branches of the
subject one of the greatest impor
tance will be the selection and
equipment of aerial routes. Landing
grounds must be provided and con
spicuous marks and indications given
Repair facilities must be established
where skilled personnel is available.
Ihe stopping places must be linked
ud with the centers of distribution
of postal and other merchandise and
arrangements made for the control
of traffic both by day and night.
Here it -is that private enterprise
will derive the greatest benefits from
the work that has been done by the
governments of the countries during
the war. The greater part, however,
still remains to be done. To take
au example; you hav probably all
read of the recent overland flights
between Egypt and India. Here I
want to emphasize the fact that all
the Royal Air force has had in mind
when these long range and special
flights have been undertaken has
been in order to blaze the trail and
gain experience.
Flying and the Press.
Although it is in connection with
long distance work that aviation has
most to offer, yet it is well not to
overlook the possibilites of such
routs as London to Dublin and Lon
don to Glasgow. In the former case
Ihe distance is 288 miles, and in the
latter, 360. Study is now being
given by the air ministry to these in
connection with their possibilities
for urgent mails and newspaper
work. Newspaper proprietors may
easily find it advantageous to use
high-speed aeroplanes for convey
ance of copy, stereotypes, photo
graphs, and so on between such cen
ters as London, Paris, Glasgow and
Dublin, for use in the simu,ltaneous
publication of identical issues of
iheir newspapers.
I should like next to say a few
words on the prospects of individ
ual passenger services between
large centers separated only by a
few hundred miles of distance. We
have all been told in the papers how,
before very long, business men and
others will be telephoning to nearby
aerodomes and ordering out their
machines to convey them to Paris or
Brussels, or some other point. Well,
there is really no reason why this
should not come about. Quite apart
from the numbers of officers who
have been transported to France by
aeroplane in machines going out as
reinforcements, we established, in
the summer of this year, a small or
ganization, called the Communica
tion squadron. It was organized on
comprehensive lines, and consisted
of two flights of D. H. 4's, with
Rolls-Royce engines, and a few
other machines, with a personnel of
61 officers and men. Between Au
gust and November there were
made no fewer than 279 passenger
cross-country flights, 'such as to
Paris, Nancy, Dunkirk, Manchester,
York and Birmingham, and there
was not a single case of a crash oc
curing to any machine with pas
sengers on board. On one occasion
two D. H. 4 machines were required
to transport Mr. Paul Cravath and
Mr. Crosby, to the American mis
sion, and a record trip was made
to Paris and back on the same day
in four hours and 20 minutes. One
of the pilots of this squadron, who
is over 40 years old, has now flown
across the channel as pilot 287 times,
frequently in bad weather.
Airship and Airplane.
It may well be that for commer
cial purposes the airship is adapted
for long-distance journeys involv
ing non-stop flights. The airship
has the inherent advantage over the
aeroplane that there is practically
no limit whatever to its range, pro
vided it can be made large enough.
The large rigid airship is still in
an embryonic stage, but sufficient
has already been accomplished to
show that with increased capacity
there is no reason why they should
not be built capable of completing
the circuit of the globe."
There need not necessarily be
competition with the aeroplane, and
the aim should be to undertake such
journeys as are unsuitable for heav-ler-thaa-air
craft, .One. of their ob
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jections has been the great expense
of construction of sheds large
enough to house the rigid aicships
of the future and the taking of them
in and out of their sheds in any
thing but calm weather. It is pos
sible that these difficulties may, be
solved by the method of mooring
them to masts or cables and if this
is successful, the airship would then
need only to be taken into the shed
for overhaul and repairs in the same
way as the steamship enters dry
dock for a periodical refit. Schemes
for the development of the airship
for commercial purposes may be
long to the future more than to the
immediate present Its possibilities
should, however, not be forgotten.
Some day, perhaps, when the prob
lems are solved and subsidiary or
ganization has been built up, it may
be possible to run a continuous alt
ship service between England and
America.
One of the most important of the
attendant problems to be solved is
the influence of the weather on the
operation of any flying service. At
present the weather still is the
great natural enemy of aviation.
Tliat it will before long be fully con
quered, there is very little doubt.
There are at present 31 Royal Air
force meterological stations in the
United Kingdom alone, and there
seems every likelihood of this nun
ber increasing rather than decreas
ing. It is to my mind essential
that the development of both me
teorology and wireless telegraphy
should take place along broad im
perial lines. British aircraft will
soon be as widely spread as the
British empire.
The development which will be of
the greatest use for enabling ma
chines to fly all weathers is the
direction-finding wireless apparatus
carried in aircraft for ascertaining
the bearing of ground wireless trans
mitting stations. This method is at
present secret and was developed in
the" service during the war. It will
probably be one of the greatest fac
tors in facilitating and increasing
the safety of flying overseas and
above clouds. Aircraft so equipped
can fix their position frequently, can
report to their base at any moment
where they are, what course they
fire steering, or if they are in any
difficulty. Ihe ground transmitting
stations are, in fact, a form of aerial
lighthouse or beacon unaffected by
fog, apd with a range of visibility
of 600 or 700 miles. Their cost
would be high, perhaps in the neigh
borhood of 60,000 or 70,000 per
station, but for aircraft they are
primary requirements. They would,
moreover, be useful for news trans
mission and also be a help to ship
ping in foggy weather, and when
astronomical observations are im
possible on account of clouds. An
other indespensible adjunct to
aerial navigation will be the prep
aration of specialized air charts or
all routes.
i Pilot of the Future.
One frequently hears the opinion
expressed that in the future the pilot
of the aeroplane will correspond to
s driver of a car. This I regard as
a fallacy; a much higher type of in
telligence and a much higher type ot
courage is and will be required for
aircraft than for any form of land
transport. A pilot is something more
than a mere driver; he must be
something of an engineer, using the
term in its broadest sense. He must
be the type of man who has got
weather, navigation, machinery, and
speed in his bones. Though not
necessarily a trick flyer, he will cer
tainly need as much courage as is re
quired for trick flying. A good pilot
should possess the faculty which en
ables men to make mental calcula
tions or to reason rapidly from cause
to effect. In other words he must
not get flurried. He requires in fact
the qualifications which go to make
successful seamen and horsemen. I
could imagine the ideal pilot for im
portant commercial work would be
one who, having served his -appren
ticeship in a sailing vessel, passed in
navigation and worked in steam, had
joined the cavalry at the beginning
of the war, transferred to the air
service, and has been employed on
long reconnaissances and long-range :
night bombing raids. The British
race possess naturally all the charac
teristics of the ideal commercial type
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ni puoc in a laicm iorm, ana just
as the Elizabethan seamen and the
buccaneers of a later date prepared
that way for the race of modern mer
chant seamen, so the war pilots of
today have. paved the way for the
evolution of a British merchant air
service.
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LEAGUE AFTER
PEACE, LATEST
BRITISH VIEW
British Change Views and
League of Nations May
Be Arranged After
Treaty Is Signed.
By WILLIAM J. BUTLER.
Staff Correspondent of Universal
Service.
, (Special Cable Dispatch.)
London, March 21. Great Britain
is exceedingly anxious to meet the
wishes of America but she believes
peace "should be concluded im
mediately and the league of nafions
be handled later.
That is the logical summary of the
British attitude, judging from the
press comment and expressions ob
tained in British officialdom though,
for obvious reasons, names cannot
be mentioned.
In some circles it is true there pre
vails a view summed up by the Daily
News thus:
"It would be a profound mistake
to leave the covenant out of the
terms."
On the other hand there is a wild
eyed element shouting about an open
break between Lloyd George and
President Wilson and dubbing the
latter, as the Morning Post cuts it,
"ah . autocrat proposing to force a
league down the throat of the
American senate by coating it with
the sugar of peace. v
British Attitude.
But the general British attitude is
expressed by Lord Robert Cecil in
an interview with the Daily Mail's
Paris correspondent in which he de
clares his belief that the league will
not figure in the peace preliminaries.
Lord Cecil added the British dele
gates were "most anxious to please
their American friends" but that he
felt "the practicability of including
the league in the peace treaty de
pends rather on the extent to which
it is proposed to place the league on
a working basis and to elaborate the
details."
(This is the first intimation that
Lord Roberta Cecil, chief British
champion of the league idea, doubts
the inclusion of the covenant in the
peace treaty. This conflicts with a
Paris dispatch from Naboth Hedin
indicating Lord Cecil was confident
it would be included.)
"Persons here ill close touch with
American opinion attach special im
portance to the developing opposi
tion in the United States senate to
the league idea and regard as highly
significant the prediction of the New
York World that the senate will re
ject the league proposal in any
form," says the Daily Chronicle.
It may only be intended as a
warning to Mr. Wilson to moderate
his views so as to render them ac
ceptable to his critics. On the other
hand, many believe the president has
the mass of public opinion behind
him and that he will ultimately pre
vail." From s Future History.
The end of the war had come. The
kaiser had been consigned to, his St.
Helena and finally after a. few years he
died. The relchstag, convened In special
session, received a message sent by the
guard m charge of the Island.
"Wllbelra dead," said the message;
"shall we have him embalmed cre
mated or burled?"
The relchstag spent three diys In con
sidering the matter behind closed doors
and then sent this reply:
'Do all three; take no chances."
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Financial History; Omahan
Makes Address at Chi
cago Meeting.
Chicago, March 21. Secretary of
the Treasury Carter Glass, in sev
eral appearances here before Liber
ty loans organizations, financiers,
editors and publishers, today gave
assurance that the fifth, the Victory
loan, wiuld be the last popular loan.
He confidently predicted that the
American people "will make it the
greatest success in the financial his
tory of the world."
"The Victory Liberty loan should
be subscribed by the people from
their savings and earnings, he said,
adding that the people in one way
or another must meet the govern?
ment's obligations.
"They may on the one hand lend
to their government and receive
their capital with interest," he con
tinued, "or the government will
have to raise funds by direct taxa
tion which rakes the funds entirely
from the people. ,
War Not Yet Over, Says OdelL
Among speakers at the loan or
ganization gathering were Maj.
Gen. Leonard Wood, Lafayette
Young, head of the loan publicity
in Iowa, and Frank G. Odell of
Omaha, all of whom emphasized
that the war will not be over until
all soldiers and sailors were brought
home and military obligations paid.
Mr. Odell, referring' to the or
ganization workers, said:
"Most folks remember us chiefly
as a persistent, inquisitive, meddle
some bunch of patriots who lined
everybody up at the call of the gov
ernment and did our best to make
every man do his full share. For
this somewhat thankless task we
need make no apology, nor need we
crown ourselves with any self-bestowed
laurels."
Tonight Secretary Glass was
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Another Hero Tale Untrue
Private Hugo Enholm Says "Hot Stuff" a Certain
Omahan Told Bee Headers Makes it Look as if He
Alone Did All the Fighting and Won the War.
Early home-coming heroes ' of
the great war should confine them
selves strictly to facts in relating
incidents of their own heroism. If
they don't, some of their own over
seas companions may give the lie
to their statements.
Omaha boys with the ordnance
detachment, Three Hundred and
Forty-first machine gun battalion,
with the Army of Occupation in
Bleialf, Germany, delegated Hugo
Enholm to write The Bee, in protest
of some of the exploits related by
returned men of this battalion, one
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League Covenant Dangerous,
Declares Colorado Senator
Denver, Colo., March 21. United
States Senator Thomas of Colorado,
in an address on the league of na
tions here today before the Denver
Civic and Commercial association,
declared:
"The covenant as now drawn is,
dangerous to the United States." "
Senator Thomas said he thought
the senate would amend the pro
posed covenant.
"From what I heard in Washing
ton since the close of congress I
am inclined to the belief that when
the senate has finished with the
amendments, the president will nof
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the interview was printed was read
by the boys in Germany.
"From the amount of 1iot-ituff
he told, your readers will imacint
this fellow did all our fighting wnili
the rest of the battalion gracefully
grouped themselves and gazed with
wonder on such Trojan feats Such
is not the case, and records will
show that the company of which h
was a member, saw the least action
of any in the battalion, so that it
would be impossible for - all thess
events to occur," wrote Private En
holm. ,
"I voice the sentiments of th
balance of the Omaha boys who are .
not so well equipped with press
agents."
recognize the league covenant," he
declared.
644 Doughboys Win Crosses
in Fighting at Belleau Wood
Washington, March 21. Six hun
dred and forty-four distinguished
service crosses have been awarded
to men of the American Second di
vision, who stopped the Germans at
Belleau wood. A War department
statement today shows that of dec
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the division up to March 17 the Fifth,
regiment (marines) won 206; the
Sixth (marines), 137; the Ninth
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