Britain and Germany Bracketed for Third Place France leads Britain in the race for civil aerial supremacy Fy more than two to one at present, writes Major W. 'T. Blake, the "Daily News" Aviation Correspondent.
According to the latest available figures, the British Empire operates seven air routes, while the French Empire is responsible for ly. Germany is bracketed third with Britain, having seven services to her credit, though all of these are internal routes, and cannot compare in mileage with the British system. Second in the list comes the United States, with nine services running regularly, the majority of which are carried on with flying boats. Of the other countries, Esthonia has two services, Holland two, Denmark one, Poland two, Spain one, Sweden one, Colombia three, and Siam one.
The British services are those run by Handley Page 'l'ransport to Paris, by the Instone Air Lind tu Cologne, by Daimler Hire to Amsterdam and to Berlin, by the R.A.F. from Cairo to Bagdad, by Western Australian Airways, Ld.,, from Carnarvon to Derby, and by Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services, Ld., from Tambo to Winton. The French lines operate chiefly in France and Northern Africa, though the Military Air Service runs three routes in the Middle East.
In addition to these Nes about a dozen more are definitely scheduled to start in different countries this summer, whic other services, previously running regularly, have become irregular or have dropped out altogether. cloud that overhung the summit was lit up by lurid flashes, and white hot cinders shot in spurts hundreds of feet into the air.
I had passed that way before in daylight, and could picture the green slopes, with the little white cottages nestling among their vineyards; marvelling that men could be found to make their homes so literally on the edge of a volcano, with those gigantic forces pent up beneath.
It was after four o'clock in the morning when I turned to go below, and on the way met my old friend Mac coming up for a breather on deck after his watch in the engine-room. Like so many of his race and calling, he is some. thing of a thinker and meta physician.
"All flesh is grass," he observed. "'All flesh is ants, I say; just human ants—living on their little ant-heaps until a Great Hand comes down and smokes them out, or knocks over the ant-heap, and then they start to build And that is just what happened,—Pall Mall Gazette."
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