London, July 23.
The Association of ' Municipal Authorities of Great Britain are insisting on entire Governmental responsibility for the cost of precautions against air raids. The Government has consented to bear seventy per cent. of the cost but this is not accepted by the Association.
There are 3000000 gas masks in one depot in Scotland,—Reuter, that time has come to apply "pres sure" upon the "Chinese military clique, otherwise known as the Chiang: Kai-shek administration."
Included among the sponsors of the Society are Lieut-Gen. Takeo Kikuchi, retired, President of the reactionary Japan Spirit Associatio Mr. Atsushi Akaike, former Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police Board; and Viscount Tadashiro In-owe, an industrialist. The projected Society is expected by its sponsors to supply the backbone of a nation: wide movement, supporting a "strong" China policy.—Domet, Much Important Data Is Now Available London, July Five more experimental double crossings of the North Atlantic Ocean, in connection with the air mail scheme, it is understood, are scheduled for completion before the ice at the Botwood seaplane base in Newioundland closes the route to ing boats for the winter.
These flights will probably be shared by the two long-range Empire flying boats, the Caledonia, which returned from America four days ago in the record time of twelve hours six minutes, and the Cambria, at present standing by at Lisbon ior trial journeys over the South Atlantic route.
Land plane flights may extend this years North Atlantic experiments, Hatties Camp, Newfoundland's new aerodrome, should be ready for use in the autumn and flying trials of the fast new Albatross four-engined monoplane may have progressed far enough for experimental trans-ocean crossings to be underta
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