BRITAIN'S PLANS FOR AIR TRAFFIC
DAWN OF A GREAT ERA
INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF
CONTROL
GERMAN COMPETITION
By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Rec- December 25, 5.5 p.m.)
London, December 23. Lord Wier (British Air Minister), speaking at Manchester, said that tho be.it interests of civilisation would not be served by keeping civil aviation as a Government monopoly. The Government had drafted a scheme for an International Air Board. This _ 6cheme would be submitted to the Allies, and if approved on international air eonfert'erence would bo held in a few months' time to organise international flying. Within five years the navigation of the aeroplane in bad weather ought to bo as easy as steering a- ship in similar circumstances. Already wo had aeroplanes able to climb tell thonsind feet, travel a hundred milps per hour, make a non-stop journey of 1200 miles, and alight on the sea and rise again with a full load. A new and tremendous industry was about to be created out of the Royal Air Force, which, trained and dcI veloped in war, would put the lessons learnt into practice for the purposes of I peace and civilisation. The Air Force, which included 285 officers awl 1853 men in August,, 1914, now numbered 30,000 oliicers, 200,000 men, and 30,000 women and boys. Tho chief problems for the immediate future would be severe navigational training, the creation of an energetic meteorological service, the adoption of improved wireless telegraphy and I telephony, and the adoption of a first- ' class system of day and night landingplaces and aerodromes. These things would cost a lot of money, but would consummate and justify the work of the men ivho had died.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
AIR RIVALRY IN GERMANY IMMENSE EFFORTS IN TRAIN (Rec. December 25, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 23. The "Daily Express" correspondent at Copenhagen states that Germany is making enormous secret preparations to secuvo the air mastery after tlie war. "The war factories all over the country," lie says, "are being converted into aircraft factories. Gigantic hangars and aerodromes are being inaugurated in all the principal towns. The scheme provides for some circuits upon Merlin and expanding later into foreign services to the principal capitals, even to New York. Gigantic aeroplanes are' being designed, the largest coating nearly <£100.000. Prominent German business men are now saying that Germany's future lies in tho air."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
BRITISH AIRSHIP'S LONG CRUISE London, December 23. A correspondent of "The Times" writes that a British airship recently cruised for sixty-one hours without a stop. It is: "no longer a secret that the Germaus owed their escape from tho Battle of Jutland to a Zeppelin, which also enabled tho flotilla that bombarded Scarborough to cscape. A contract has already been placed for an airship with a capacity of ten million cubic feet, which is four' times as big as tho biggest Zeppelin.—Renter. AN AIR TRAGEDY AMERICAN GENERAL INJURED/ (Rec. December 25, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, December 23. An aeroplane with a British pilot and a:o American General as passenger, returning from Treves to Paris, capsized nsar Paris. The pilot is dead and the General is seriously injured.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TO THE NORTH POLE BY AEROPLANE A PEARY-BARTLETT VENTURE. New York, December 23. •The Aero Club of America has announced that an expedition to the North Polo will probably be made next June by aeroplane. It is proposed that tho expedition will be headed by Captain Peary and Captain Bartlett.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. AIRWOMAN TO TRY THE ATLANTIC FLIGHT London, December 23. Katherina Stinson, an American avic.trix, has announced that she will fly from Europe to America. She was tho first of her sex' to fly over London, which feat she accomplished on Friday.—Aus.N;Z. Cable' Assn. AMERICAN AIRMEN'S WAR "SCALPS" Neiw York, December 23. Tho War Department has announced that up to tho signing of the armistice the Americans brought down 851 German aeroplanes and 85 balloons. The American losses were 271 aeroplanes and 45 balloons.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
SOLDIERS' GRAVES TEMPORARY CROSSES AVAILABLE AS MEMENTOES. (Rec. December 25, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 23. Sir Thomas Mackenzie (New Zealand High Commissioner), on behalf of the Graves Commission, announces that ■temporary crosses on the soldiers' gravea will be saved for the relations and friends if they wish to have them as mementoes.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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