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Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1924, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

vSCT'LI’TI'HE THAT IS NOT WRONG LONDON, .lime ” .

Ex-cavalrymen who have visited tinnew Cavalry War Memorial in Hyde I’ark have noticed that, the horses in bas-relief on the eastern side are wearing bandoliers upside- down, and felt sudieiently strong about ii to write. Shown these soldiers’ letters. Captain Adrian Jones, the sculptor, said;

‘•Those men could not have served in I'ali-stine. 1 put the- bandoliers upside. down intentionally on that particular side, because ill J'alesliue they wore worn that w-v. The horses u-e-d to throw tlu-ir heeds so much to get riel of Hies that they used to get rid of aniniiiuitioii too. and it was found that matters were' improved by reversing the bandoliers.” Critical studies of I. union's statues and memorials have* resulted in many genuine' errors being discovered. '1 he soldier on tin- new City and County ot London memorial in front of the Royal Exchange has his hands over the iniizzleof his ri lit', which is contrary to Army regulations. It. has been said of Landseer's lions in Trul'algur-squarc that lions do not lie with loth fore-paws Hat: Cromwell's spurs outside Westminster Hall aresaid to lie upside down; while many statues hear wrong dates and mis-spell-ed inscriptions.

MARRIAGE l-'RADDS. LONDON. June

Developments are shortly expected to follow the investigations made by the police- into several marriages which "have take'll place in London register oHire’s between Englishmen and undesirable foreign women. The men have been paid to marry the women, who thus become British subjects and cannot lie deported. Ol-ti-n the couple pari at once.

.The |i dice have nut. traced a man who some months ago married a l-'ie'liehwiinian in n London register ol-li-c. A falsa address was given and the woman saved from deportation by her marriage. It is believed mat the organisation responsible lor finding husbands tor these women have agents on the l.’oliiiti'iit who arrange for their marriage in .England on the payment of a fee w hich is often more than C !()!>.

On arrival in England the women are introduced to the men who are to marry them. If the ease is urgent a false period of residence is given and the marriage takes place by license in two or three days.

ROCKET” AEUOIM.AXKS. LONDON, June

Te-ts are shortly to take place with what .-ire described as "rocket-planes,” wiites an Air Correspondent.

Among the secret machines of the experimental programme of the I'Yeneh Gnvernmenl air service is a mancarrying type ol aircraft, which has neither engine nor propeller in the ordinary sense.

In-ide the hull of this machine there is an apparatus which produces gaunder pressure in a combustion chamber and ejects it rearward into the ait through a scries of specially designed n„tides. The reaction to this ceaseless discharge will, it is calculated, drive the winged "rocket” at a speed greated l lien tin- lastcsl attained with pro-peller-driven aeroplanes.

Theoretically, it has been worked uni that a speed a- great as :!7il miles an linur .lioiild be possible by this system, which is called "jet” propulsion, but such extreme performances will not. naturally, he attempted in preliminary trials.

To overcome dilfieullies in ascending and alighting it is proposed that the "rocket-plane’’ would he launched by a hydraulic catapult, and land at the end nf its Might on some arrangement of elevated wires.