We have received from General Finn Kirin, director of the Peking Department of Aeronautics, a copy of a descriptive booklet on the Rome-Tokio flight.
The booklet is printed in Chinese and is profusely illustrated throughout, the pictures including Col. Gabriele D'Annuntio, the Italian poet-soldier-airman who originated and planned out the fight; Cols. Savoia and Verduzio, the inventors of the SVA machines which are being used in the flight:
Brezzi, director of the Ansaldo Works where the machines used in the flight were made; Lieuts. Ferrarin and Masiero, the first aviators ta reach China; the machines used by these two airmen; other various types of Italian machines; a picture of the German Zeppelin works taken by Lieut. Ferrarin: as well as a map showing the route taken on the Rome-Tokio flight.
The reading section contains a history of the development of aviation in Italy; lives of D'Annunzio,—-Ferrarin. and Masiero: and a detailed description of the flight taken by the aviators.
Anew series of the Storm Wai ing Code thas been issued by joint agreement by the Siccawei and Phulien Observatories and the Chinese Maritime Customs, and comprises an interpretation of the signals which will in future shown from the ball tower indicating gales, typhoons, ete. As far as the day signals are concerned, no ch change has been made, but in the night signals the addition of another lamp, making four in all, a wider range of signals has been rendered possible, which will enable ship masters to leave Shanghai at night with full warning of the troubles they are likely to meet at sea. The tables themselves have been laid out on a simpler plan than formerly and present their information in a manner more easy of appreciation Watton. On either side are columns of carved laurel around which is twined a riband bearing at intervals the legends "Pro Rege," "Pro Patria," "Pro Schola," and "Pro Nobis." The date for unveiling the tablet has not yet been fixed.
Just recently an interesting tablet has been placed in the Cathedral at the instance of Dean Walker. Beneath the picture which is hung on the left side of the chancel is the prie Chew at which every day during the war one of the boys of the Cathedral School said a short prayer for the well-being of the old boys at, the Front. On this has now been placed a brass tablet bearing these words: "During the War the boys of the Cathedral School said this prayer in this place daily for the old boys on service. 'Oh Heavenly Father keep them safe in life or death for Jesus? sake.'
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.