"Has every man a right to fly—if haean; and if'so, where?", the Morning Post" asks in discussing some interesting questions relative to the progress of riaton. At ie glance it would appear to be merely " question, of ways and means, bat international considerations of real importance are involved. The question will have to be answered as to whether a foreigner bes the "right" to fly in the air above Great Britain, or a British subject to fly over a foreiga country, The aeroplane can defy boundaries in the easiest possible manner, and this may lead to international complications. Of course, there ought not to be the hsiong? The ebrious answer suggests an analogy which would be eagerly taken up by those who fail to see the logic of private possession of the natural wealth of od forest. Tennyson's conception of "the nations' serial navies grappling in the central blae" would seem to be within messurabl> distance of realization. If, as is generally anticipated, the power of the seronant becomes supreme over armies and net the question arises, how woold impalpsble territory won by " victory in serial warfare be retained? Woald posses: ion of the Isnd immediately beneath follow as a matter of course? Ths whole and|sabject is fall of eabtleties which wil, perhaps io the near fatare, aff rd bleaty
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